@Aster “What kind of work, exactly, will the entourage do?”
Do you even know what diplomats do? They talk with business leaders and try to help negotiate treaties and trade agreements. They also help secure contracts for American companies so they can create more jobs here.
I’m not sure if you noticed, but Republican fiscal policy has created a massive debt and drove our economy into what might have been worse than the great depression, had the Obama administration not done as good of a job as they did (especially with Republican’s trying to obstruct every move they made).
It’s like someone piloting a cruise ship into an iceberg, and then handing the controls over to someone else, who saves the ship from sinking and then the one who fucked everything up then criticizes him for not preventing water damage on the lower levels.
Before getting outraged, did you even bother to look up George Bush’s entourage for comparison?
George Bush’s travel entorage:
150 national security advisors
250 secret service agents
50 whitehouse political aides
15 sniffer dog teams
1 personal chef
4 cooks
200 representatives from other U.S. Deparments
2 identical Boeing 747–200’s and a 3rd chartered jumbo jet
1 Sikorsky Sea King helicopter
1 Black Hawk helicopter
2 identical motorcades each with 20 armored vehicles including limos.