This is a list of United States ambassadors appointed by the 45th president of the United States, Donald Trump.
Ambassadorships are often used as a form of political patronage to reward high-profile or important supporters of the president. The most visible ambassadorships are often distributed either in this way or to the president's ideological or partisan confreres. Most ambassadorships, however, are assigned to foreign service officers who have spent their career in the State Department. Regardless, all ambassadors must be formally appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate. While all ambassadors serve at the president's pleasure and may be dismissed at any time, career diplomats usually serve tours of roughly three years before receiving a new assignment; political appointees customarily tender their resignations upon the inauguration of a new president.
44% of Trump's appointees were political, a substantially higher percentage than typical.[1] As of October 2018, 92% of Trump's appointees were white and 74% were male, with zero black women.[2]
CD, or career diplomats, denotes ambassadors who were appointed from the foreign service.
PA, or political appointees, denotes ambassadors who were not appointed from the foreign service.
Office | Ambassador | Background | Assumed office | Left office | |
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Representative to the United Nations and Representative in the Security Council of the United Nations (with the rank of ambassador) | data-sort-value=Haley, Nikki | Nikki Haley | PA | [161] | |
data-sort-value=Craft, Kelly | Kelly Craft | [162] | |||
Deputy Representative to the United Nations and Deputy Representative in the Security Council of the United Nations (with the rank of ambassador) | data-sort-value=Cohen, Jonathan R. | Jonathan R. Cohen | CD | [163] | |
data-sort-value=Mills, Richard M. Jr. | Richard M. Mills Jr. | [164] | June 21, 2024 | ||
Representative to the United Nations and Other International Organizations in Geneva (with the rank of ambassador) | data-sort-value=Bremberg, Andrew | Andrew Bremberg | PA | [165] | |
Representative to the Vienna Office of the United Nations (with the rank of ambassador) | data-sort-value=Wolcott, Jackie | Jackie Wolcott | [166] | ||
Representative to the United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture (with the rank of ambassador) | data-sort-value=Tom, Kip E. | Kip E. Tom | [167] | ||
Representative to the United Nations for U.N. Management and Reform (with the rank of ambassador) | data-sort-value=Chalet, Cherith Norman | Cherith Norman Chalet | [168] | ||
Representative to the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations (with the rank of ambassador) | data-sort-value=Currie, Kelley Eckels | Kelley Eckels Currie | [169] |
Office | Ambassador | Background | Assumed office | Left office | ||
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Representative to the African Union (with the rank of ambassador) | data-sort-value=Lapenn, Jessica | Jessica Lapenn | CD | [170] | February 1, 2023 | |
Director of the Asian Development Bank (with the rank of ambassador) | data-sort-value=Chung, Jason Myung-lk | Jason Chung | PA | [171] | ||
Representative to the European Union (with the rank of ambassador) | data-sort-value=Sondland, Gordon | Gordon Sondland | [172] | |||
Representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency (with the rank of ambassador) | data-sort-value=Wolcott, Jackie | Jackie Wolcott | [173] | |||
Representative on the Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization (with the rank of ambassador) | data-sort-value=Carter, Thomas L. | Thomas L. Carter | [174] | |||
Permanent Representative on the Council of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (with the rank of ambassador) | data-sort-value=Hutchison, Kay Bailey | Kay Bailey Hutchison | [175] | |||
Permanent Representative to the Organization of American States (with the rank of ambassador) | data-sort-value=Trujillo, Carlos | Carlos Trujillo | [176] | |||
Representative to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (with the rank of ambassador) | data-sort-value=Manso, Joseph | Joseph Manso | CD | [177] | December 29, 2023 | |
Representative to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (with the rank of ambassador) | data-sort-value=Gilmore, Jim | Jim Gilmore | PA | [178] |
Office | Ambassador | Background | Assumed office | Left office | |
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Chief of Protocol (with the rank of ambassador) | Sean Lawler | PA | December 1, 2017 [190] | July 9, 2019 | |
Director of the Office of Foreign Missions (with the rank of ambassador) | Stephen Akard | September 16, 2019 [191] | August 7, 2020 | ||
Special Representative of the President for Nuclear Nonproliferation (with the rank of ambassador) | Jeffrey Eberhardt | CD | June 2019 [192] | January 20, 2021 |
Office | Ambassador | Background | Confirmed | Death |
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Career Ambassador | Philip S. Goldberg | CD | 09/06/2018, voice vote[193] | living |
David Hale | 09/06/2018, voice vote | living | ||
Michele J. Sison | 09/06/2018, voice vote | living | ||
Daniel Bennett Smith | 09/06/2018, voice vote | living |
Office | Nominee | Background | Nominated | Nomination terminated | Note | |
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Representative on the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations (with the rank of ambassador) | data-sort-value=Barber, Jennifer Yue | Jennifer Yue Barber | PA | [194] | Nomination withdrawn by President Trump | |
Representative to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (with the rank of ambassador) | data-sort-value=Bates, Pamela | Pamela Bates | [195] | [196] | Nomination returned to the president | |
Ambassador to Belize | data-sort-value=Bauer, Andre | André Bauer | [197] | Nomination returned to the president | ||
Ambassador to Panama | data-sort-value=Bethel, Erik Paul | Erik Bethel | [198] | Nomination returned to the president | ||
Ambassador to Norway | data-sort-value=Burkhalter, J. Mark | Mark Burkhalter | [199] | Nomination returned to the president | ||
Ambassador to Ukraine | data-sort-value=Dayton, Keith W. | Keith Dayton | [200] | Nomination returned to the president | ||
Ambassador to the Bahamas | data-sort-value=Douglass, William A. | William A. Douglass | [201] | [202] | Nomination withdrawn by President Biden | |
Ambassador to Chile | data-sort-value=Gellert, Andrew M. | Andrew M. Gellert | [203] | Nomination withdrawn by President Trump | ||
Ambassador to Australia | data-sort-value=Harris, Harry B. Jr. | Harry B. Harris Jr. | [204] | Nomination withdrawn by President Trump, and successfully renominated as Ambassador to South Korea | ||
Chief of Protocol (with the rank of ambassador) | data-sort-value=Henderson, Katherine Camille | Cam Henderson | [205] | [206] | Nomination returned to the president | |
Ambassador to Albania | data-sort-value=Kavalec, Kathleen Ann | Kathleen A. Kavalec | CD | [207] | Nomination returned to the president | |
Ambassador to Chad | data-sort-value=Koutsis, Steven Christopher | Steven Koutsis | [208] | Nomination returned to the president | ||
Ambassador to Chile | data-sort-value=Levy, Leora Rosenberg | Leora Levy | PA | [209] | Nomination returned to the president | |
Representative to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (with the rank of ambassador) | data-sort-value=Linder, John | John Linder | [210] | Nomination returned to the president | ||
Ambassador to Germany | data-sort-value=Macgregor, Douglas | Douglas Macgregor | [211] | Nomination returned to the president | ||
Ambassador to Colombia | data-sort-value=Macmanus, Joseph E. | Joseph Macmanus | CD | [212] | Nomination returned to the president | |
Ambassador to the Bahamas | data-sort-value=Manchester, Doug | Doug Manchester | PA | [213] | [214] | Nomination withdrawn by President Trump |
Ambassador to Estonia | data-sort-value=Masso, Edward | Edward Masso | [215] | Nomination withdrawn by President Trump | ||
Ambassador to Belgium | data-sort-value=McCourt, Jamie | Jamie McCourt | [216] | Nomination withdrawn by President Trump, and successfully renominated as Ambassador to Monaco | ||
Ambassador to Singapore | data-sort-value=McFarland, Kathleen Troia | K. T. McFarland | [217] | [218] | Nomination withdrawn by President Trump | |
Alternate Representative for Special Political Affairs in the United Nations (with the rank of ambassador) | data-sort-value=Murray, Jay Patrick | Jay Patrick Murray | [219] | Nomination returned to the president | ||
Ambassador to Honduras | data-sort-value=Palmieri, Francisco Luis | Francisco Palmieri | CD | [220] | Nomination returned to the president | |
Ambassador to Qatar | data-sort-value=Phee, Mary Catherine | Mary Catherine Phee | [221] | Nomination returned to the president | ||
Representative to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (with the rank of ambassador) | data-sort-value=Regua, Eldon | Eldon Regua | PA | [222] | Nomination returned to the president | |
Ambassador to Antigua and Barbuda Ambassador to Barbados Ambassador to Dominica Ambassador to Grenada Ambassador to Saint Kitts and Nevis Ambassador to Saint Lucia Ambassador to Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | data-sort-value=Rizzuto, Leandro Jr. | Leandro Rizzuto Jr. | [223] | [224] | Nomination returned to the president | |
Ambassador to Afghanistan | data-sort-value=Ruger, William | William P. Ruger | [225] | Nomination returned to the president | ||
Representative to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (with the rank of ambassador) | data-sort-value=Singh, Manisha | Manisha Singh | [226] | Nomination returned to the president | ||
Alternate Representative for Special Political Affairs in the United Nations (with the rank of ambassador) | data-sort-value=Smith, Austin M. | Austin M. Smith | [227] | Nomination returned to the president | ||
Ambassador to Singapore | data-sort-value=Thornhill, Barbera Hale | Barbera Hale Thornhill | [228] | [229] | Nomination withdrawn by President Biden | |
Ambassador to Pakistan | data-sort-value=Todd, William E. | William E. Todd | CD | [230] | [231] [232] | Nomination returned to the president |
Ambassador to Malta | data-sort-value=Toretti, Christine J. | Christine Toretti | PA | [233] | Nomination returned to the president | |
Ambassador to Japan | data-sort-value=Weinstein, Kenneth R. | Kenneth R. Weinstein | [234] | Nomination returned to the president | ||
Ambassador to Qatar | data-sort-value=Wendt, Eric | Eric Wendt | [235] | Nomination returned to the president | ||
Alternate Representative for Special Political Affairs in the United Nations (with the rank of ambassador) | data-sort-value=Wong, Alex Nelson | Alex N. Wong | [236] | Nomination returned to the president | ||
Ambassador to Canada | data-sort-value=Wos, Aldona Z. | Aldona Wos | Nomination returned to the president |