No-shows by Trump’s envoy to France increase diplomatic friction

PARIS: Charles Kushner shows no interest in learning French, pays little heed to the strict codes of Parisian bureaucracy and causes ​consternation in the nation that shaped modern diplomacy. Since arriving in Paris last summer, President Donald Trump's top emissary to France has upended French expectations of how a US ambassador should behave, underlining a brash new breed of America-first diplomacy across Europe. The choice of Kushner for a job once held by Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson has long raised eyebrows in Paris.

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