President-elect Donald Trump's transition team has asked senior career diplomats who oversee the U.S. State Department's workforce to step down ahead of Trump's inauguration.
Reuters reported that Dereck Hogan, Marcia Bernicat, and Alaina Teplitz have been asked to step down by the Trump team as they have been in charge of the workforce and internal state department coordination and need to be removed in order for Trump to clean house.
Typically, career foreign service officers continue from one administration to the next while many other federal officials experience turnover when administrations change.
Trump is not interested in keeping anyone from previous administrations on board as it's those career diplomats and officials who undermined Trump's administration the last time around.
Trump promised supporters that he would "clean out the deep state" by firing bureaucrats that he believes are disloyal and that would slow down his agenda.
The news of Trump asking career officials to step down has already ignited panic among the Washington D.C. class of career bureaucrats.
One anonymous official stated, "There's a little bit of a concern that this might be setting the stage for something worse."
The Trump campaign issued a statement in response to those grumblings saying, "It is entirely appropriate for the transition to seek officials who share President Trump's vision for putting our nation and America's working men and women first. We have a lot of failures to fix and that requires a committed team focused on the same goals."
Trump wants to do everything differently and is changing every aspect of American domestic and foreign policy and that will require new people who can be trusted not to protect the old corrupt system.
Trump's foreign policy in particular is going to look entirely different from the typical American foreign policy.
Trump wants peace between Ukraine and Russia and the people who failed to achieve that over the past four years are getting the boot. Trump isn't playing around this time around and understands that he has to clean everyone out if he wants to avoid the pitfalls of his first term.
While Trump wants to end the raging conflicts going on around the globe, Trump also wants to make truly generational changes.
Trump wants to bring Greenland under the control of the United States, whether that be by direct acquisition or diplomatic means. Trump wants Greenland for economic and national security purposes and such a move will cement Trump's status as an extraordinary president.
Trump also wants to retake the Panama Canal which has been under the control of Panama since 1979. All of this will require that those bureaucrats who have called D.C. home for decades must go.
