Ambassador Ivana? How U.S. presidents get to choose America’s diplomats

Ivana Trump, the Czech-born former wife of the president-elect, recently told the New York Post that she thought her former husband should appoint her as U.S. ambassador to the Czech Republic. “[That] is where I’m from and my language and everybody knows me,” she explained. Ivana is just one of a number of rumored and hopeful ambassadors […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2016/11/22/ambassador-ivana-how-u-s-presidents-get-to-choose-americas-diplomats/