Tip to Would-Be Ambassadors:

[MineralMan]

if you're going to donate a bunch of money to a Presidential candidate in hopes of getting appointed as an Ambassador, try for some country that isn't a problem area. See, if you get appointed as Ambassador to a place like Ukraine, you'll be stepping into a political bed of quicksand. Leave those countries to experienced people with decades of diplomatic experience. If you take such an appointment, it can only lead to embarrassing situations for you.

Instead, press for an appointment to a country like Luxembourg or Denmark. Then, you can live the desired life of a vanity Ambassador, throw parties, host royalty, wear tailcoats, and the like, just like you wanted. Don't accept an appointment to countries in the middle of a dispute of any kind, or you'll only get heartbreak and criticism.

To summarize: Try to get an appointment to a country nobody really cares about much. Then, you'll have fun, enjoy socializing, and can be introduced as Ambassador without worrying about what comes next.

Just saying...

[struggle4progress]

1. Think Malta. Or Maldives. Or Saint Kitts and Nevis. Or Tuvalu.

[MineralMan]

2. There are many fine choices one could make.

There are a few very poor choices nobody should make, too.

[oswaldactedalone]

3. Another tip would be

that if you get assigned an ambassadorship to the EU, keep your nose out Ukraine’s business. The thing about the ambassadorship to the EU is that you’re not even allowed to nose into the business of the countries in the EU. It’s the simplest ambassadorship around and is more ceremonial than anything.

That’s why he was seen as expendable and able to participate in Trump’s nefarious activities.

[FM123]

4. Or if you would like a little irony thrown in with that fun...

ask to be an Ambassador to the Vatican like Newt Gingrich's wife - holy cow or rather, Holy See?

[3catwoman3]

5. More than a little irony. I'm not Catholic.

I'm not even a Christian. Yet, the appointment of helmet-hair, scary-eyed Callista Gingrich as Ambassador to the Vatican irked the hell out of me. The devout Catholic who was not bothered by old Newtie cheating on his second wife to be with her - what a load of bushwa.

Why hasn't she been excommunicated?

[FM123]

6. Yep. What a hypocrite - she should be Ambassador of Hypocrisy not Holy See.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

7. Purchased ambassador appointments have traditionally been

to small, obscure but pleasant tropical countries where the completely unqualified wealthy ambassador can get by with swanning about in a dinner jacket as the host of elegant parties at the embassy, and where said ambassador can entertain fantasies about being a character in a Graham Greene novel. As long as he doesn't drink too heavily or offend the locals too much, he's at least marginally useful as a representative of the United States, and after he is eventually replaced by the next purchaser of the office, he can come home and regale his friends with the time he saw a centipede the size of a cat in his bathroom.

[MineralMan]

8. If you donate enough money, you can get one of the

big Embassies, though. The trick is to let the State Dept. pros handle all of the tricky bits, while you party on and mingle with the royals, etc. Now, that's diplomacy!