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JUST IN: Senior Diplomat FIRED For Mocking President Trump

President Trump’s victory last November is still sending out shockwaves, affecting the political landscape far and wide.

And that’s not generally a bad thing.

One specific alteration on the diplomatic landscape began, initially, in the form of a literal change to the White House décor.

But the impact of that simple decision would cause reverberations impacting multiple governments.

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Here’s how it began:

On day one of his new term, the bust of Winston Churchill was immediately returned to the Oval Office, just as President Trump had it prominently placed during his first term.

Little could anyone have guessed the ramifications that a likeness of Churchill would cause on the diplomatic front!

Most of the dustup surrounding that Churchill bust has taken place in the realm of American politics, though Great Britain has had their own issues lately with the removal of historic pieces related to past leaders from their own halls of power.

And then today, something remarkable happened.

The ‘Trump Effect’, as it has come to be called, seemed to take on just as much power to affect changes overseas as has been witnessed these last few weeks on our own shores.

In remarks tying that bust of Churchill to President Trump’s stance on the war in Ukraine, New Zealand’s most senior diplomat in London attempted to belittle and mock President Trump’s intellect and understanding of history.

And he was quickly relieved of his diplomatic position for doing so!

Check out the video of Goff’s disrespectful remarks yesterday:

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The remarks were a dig at President Trump’s determined intent to bring about a peace deal with Russia and Ukraine in order to stop the fighting in that war.

By Goff’s logic, every peace deal under the sun must be a bad thing; or else… he was simply looking for a way to hit at President Trump because he doesn’t like him.

I guess now, without the burden of his former diplomatic post, Goff will have even more hours in the day to dislike President Trump’s geopolitical strategies.

He’ll have so much free time… he can probably hate President Trump twice as much as he did already!  (Come for the story… stay for the sarcasm.)

But Goff will have to do his Trump-hating from a distance from now on, seeing that he will no longer be around to exert any true influence in the diplomatic sphere after his complete failure to ‘read the room’.

Goff’s attempt at a witty slap at President Trump came during a question and answer session in London, where Goff was stationed as New Zealand’s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom.

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Following a speech on the topic of maintaining peace on NATO’s border with Russia by Finland’s Foreign Minister, Elina Valonen, Goff took the opportunity to paint President Trump as lacking the intelligence and historical understanding to fully grasp the situation with Ukraine and Russia.

Keep in mind, these are the very people within NATO who marched the world right up to the brink of WWIII, frequently making moves and speaking words that seemingly dared Russia to kick things off against NATO.

Goff was almost immediately relieved of his position following his swipe at President Trump, according to the New York Post:

New Zealand’s most senior envoy to the United Kingdom has lost his job over remarks he made about US President Donald Trump at an event in London this week, New Zealand‘s foreign minister said Thursday.

Phil Goff, who is New Zealand’s High Commissioner to the UK, commented at an event held by the international affairs think tank Chatham House in London on Tuesday.

Goff asked a question from the audience of the guest speaker, Finland’s Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen, in which he said he had been re-reading a famous speech by former British wartime leader Winston Churchill from 1938, when Churchill was a lawmaker in the government of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain.

Churchill’s speech rebuked Britain’s signing of the Munich Agreement with Adolf Hitler, allowing Germany to annex part of Czechoslovakia.

Goff quoted Churchill as saying to Chamberlain, “You had the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor, yet you will have war.”

Goff then asked Valtonen: “President Trump has restored the bust of Churchill to the Oval Office. But do you think he really understands history?”

Valtonen’s speech on Tuesday was billed as covering Finland’s approach to European security at an event entitled ‘Keeping the peace on NATO’s longest border with Russia.’

In response to reporters’ questions, Foreign Minister Winston Peters said that Goff’s remarks were “disappointing” and made the envoy’s position “untenable.”

“When you are in that position, you represent the government and the policies of the day,” Peters said. “You’re not able to free think, you are the face of New Zealand.”

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As one freedom loving New Zealander pointed out on his X account, we shouldn’t presume that Goff lost his job because his boss is necessarily ‘Pro-Trump’.

In fact, Brian Tamaki brought up a video of Winston Peters — the Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand, who just fired Goff — adamantly denying any semblance between him and President Trump back in 2018.

Obviously, Goff wasn’t fired merely for making a joke at President Trump’s expense; he was fired because it would LOOK bad on the world scene… since President Trump is so popular and relevant.

Goff’s boss might not like President Trump anymore than Goff does, but at least he can READ THE ROOM!

Here’s the text from Tamaki’s post, which even more clearly lays out how the ‘Trump Effect’ is so powerful… it has TRUMP-HATERS standing up for Trump in OTHER COUNTRIES… because they don’t want to be seen as anti-Trump by their own population!

Phil Goff has been sacked as NZ’s UK High Commissioner. Winston Peters has given him the boot—for daring to speak up against Trump.

But hold up… isn’t Winston the one who insisted he’s nothing like Trump? (Flashback to 2018…)

And for all those on social media recently claiming Winston is NZ’s Trump—Winston himself killed that idea. And let’s be real—he’s nothing like Trump.

Trump takes action. Winston’s had time to take down RSEs, stand up against drag performances targeting kids, and push back on the Pride movement’s agenda—but he hasn’t.

And, if we’re rolling heads for anti-Trump comments, it’s not just Off with Goff… who’s next? Luxon, Seymour…or even Winston?

Who would have ever imagined that simply putting the bust of Winston Churchill back in the Oval Office would lead to SO MUCH ‘TRUMP EFFECT’!

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President Trump is impacting the top echelon of the global diplomatic scene without even trying!

Check out this BBC report on Goff’s firing by Peters.

Apparently, Peters was SO concerned about possible blowback from Goff’s disrespectful comments towards President Trump that he didn’t even consult with the Prime Minister of New Zealand — HIS BOSS — before firing him!

In case you missed connecting the dots between Trump-haters here in the US and Trump-haters in the rest of the world, I’ll connect those dots.

What does every Trump-hater, apparently without respect to nationality, have in common?

They all seem to immediately jump to comparing President Trump to HITLER and NAZI’s as a first line of attack.

Phil Goff and the Europeans might do so with a little more subtlety than us Americans… but it’s the same old ridiculous narrative — Trump is “literally Hitler”.

Peters called firing Goff a “difficult” thing, and attempted to shade his decision to do so as having nothing to do with the fact that Goff’s remarks were aimed at President Trump in particular, according to Fox News:

Phil Goff, who was serving as New Zealand’s high commissioner to the U.K., apparently tried to draw a contrast between Winston Churchill’s handling of Nazi Germany and Trump’s approach to Russia.

Valtonen seemed uncomfortable with the question, saying she would “limit” herself in her response. Rather than saying anything about Trump, the Finnish official said many of Churchill’s remarks were “timeless.”

Peters called Goff’s firing “one of the most difficult” things he has had to do in his career. He also said that had the former high commissioner made the statement about any other nation, he would have been “forced to act,” implying that the firing was not because Goff specifically insulted Trump.

At some point, the American Trump-haters and the worldwide consortium of global Trump-haters might want to come to their senses, and recognize what they’re up against.

As vocal as many of them have been, I honestly don’t think they truly fathom just how monumental a thing President Trump’s rise from the brutal attacks of the last four years is turning out to be.

Things are changing; a lot of things.  And right or wrong, the shifting political winds caused by his victory is a dangerous thing for those who deal with it carelessly and casually.

The ‘Trump Effect’ began as a funny hashtag; an easy way for many of us to sum up so many changes in so short of a time period.

But as time has worn on, the reverberations that we now see happening in which the mere fact of President Trump’s existence seems to impact the circumstances in which he involves himself in surprisingly powerful ways… seems to argue rather strongly that the ‘Trump Effect’ is far more than a passing hashtag for witting social media posts.

Just ask Phil Goff — he now has a ‘Trump Effect’ story of his own to tell.

Though I dare say he wishes he could have landed on the other side of that equation, if he had only read the room a little more accurately.


 

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