going to become more normal, he felt. he resigned because president trump basically made him persona nongrata and didn t want to work with him after being insulted. what does this mean for how honest our diplomats should be? diplomats have to be honest, same for everybody else. we ve got to work with other people whether they say something nice about us or not. and one of the things the dictator of north korea figured he could stroke donald trump s ego and get better treatment. if that s all it takes, we re all in trouble. in the end we have to work with people whether we like them or not or agree with them or not. but to achieve the ends of american security and what the american people need, britain is one of our key allies, but this is making it harder to have an alliance we need. many other realities and so i think what s happened here, our alliances are fraying because