Trump's Proposed Executive Order Will Require Loyalty Tests

American diplomats spent the weekend panicking about Trump's alleged plan to radically reshape the State Department in Donald his megalomaniac image.

A leaked 16-page document, that appears to be a draft for an executive order, has been circulating among diplomatic staff since last week. It calls for the elimination of dozens of positions and departments, slashing diplomatic operations in Canada, and closing “non-essential” embassies and consulates in sub-Saharan Africa. This declaration has some Trump donors “concerned” they are going to lose their posh new diplomatic digs.

The draft also outlined a change to how the Foreign Service relocates its personnel. Instead of staff being rotated to posts around the globe, the department would now require them to select a single region to remain in for the duration of their careers to “maximize expertise.”

At the same time, the entire African Affairs bureau would be replaced by a single special envoy reporting directly to the National Security Council. Experts say pulling out of Africa would leave the continent vulnerable to Russian and Chinese influence.

Since Musk and Trump decimated USAID funding, Kremlin-backed groups have been handing out boxes of tuberculosis and HIV medication on the continent. Chinese officials have also given interviews and taken out advertisements branding themselves as a reliable partner.

The draft also includes instructions on how to overhaul the traditionally non-partisan foreign service exam to test applicants on whether they share Trump’s MAGA foreign policy views. Instead of remaining apolitical, the new foreign service exam will require “alignment with the president’s foreign policy vision” if staff want to keep their jobs or be hired.

And finally, because he's a cartoon villain, the executive order it will also eliminate the position of special envoy for climate.

The Fulbright Scholars program, which the department administers, will cease to exist in its current form.. Instead of funding the education of thousands of undergraduate and graduate students in fields like fine arts, social sciences, mathematics, humanities, and more, it would be recast as “solely for master’s-level study in national security-related disciplines.” The draft said priority will be “given to programs with intensive instruction in critical languages” like Mandarin, Russian, Farsi, and Arabic.

Those not on board with the sweeping changes would have until Sept. 30 to accept a buyout offer if the executive order is signed, part of Trump and Musk's obsession with cutting federal staff.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio called a New York Times report on the draft document “fake news‚” though he didn’t offer any details about which part was wrong.

Diplomats, however, worried the document was real, especially in light of the administration asking Congress to cut the State Department’s budget almost in half this year.

Many of the document’s terms violate the laws that govern the State Department’s operations, while other parts contradict the Trump administration’s communications to Congress about its plans for the department.

The order would also lead to a major disruption in services for Americans living and traveling in the affected countries, including those who lose their passports or need to register births abroad.

The plan is, one diplomat told Politico, “bonkers crazypants.”

“There’s a lot that could be reformed, but you could give infinite monkeys infinite typewriters, and they would come up with something better than that,” one diplomat said.