Wtf is up with your ambassadors?
You just sell the job to highest bidder?
For real?
P.S.
You never get to complain about rude waiters in Paris ever again.
P.P.S.
Wasn’t the other guy still in charge? Did he just wave a white flag and lay down in his fucking coffin?
Context, Bueller?
Ambassadorships have often been a position given to someone for political patronage (and not just in the U.S.), particularly an ambassadorship to a friendly country, where the likelihood of the ambassador having to deal with a diplomatic incident is relatively low.
The actual diplomatic work is typically done by career diplomats.
(Also, as @Chisquirrel asks: context? I’m guessing you are referring to a particular recent event? Even though this is the Pit, that information would be helpful.)
In practical sense you want a guy who is in lock step representing the countries interests, explaining the countries actions, often in really unpleasant situations. So if you find somebody who’ll do that and stump up some readies, why not?
The real diplomacy is done by the professionals in the background.
Australia’s ambassador to the US is ex-PM Kevin Rudd. We tend to head our key overseas missions with ex pollies. Kevin is over there because it’s about as far away PM Anthony Albanese can put that poisonous, unctuous, narcissistic reptile and on a chain to boot.
Probably well suited to the task.
I believe the OP is referring to Trump’s appointment of in-law, disbarred lawyer, and convicted felon Charles Kushner as US ambassador to France.
If that’s what the OP is referring to (and some clarification would be nice), ambassadorships to friendly countries are often given to donors.
I presume you’re saying the ambassador should represent the best interests of both countries, and ideally this will be the case.
Whatever the OP is on about, I’ll say a few words about the US ambassador to Canada because it’s an interesting case. The ease or difficulty of the job depends entirely on who the US president is. If it’s someone like Obama, who paid an official visit to Ottawa and whose most significant action was buying maple-leaf-shaped shortbread cookies, the ambassador’s job is a breeze. If it’s Trump, there’s always going to be trouble, especially in the upcoming term where the nominee for ambassador is Pete Hoekstra.
Hoekstra is a far-right extremist who was a founding member of the Tea Party Caucus and a former fellow at the Heritage Foundation, the architects of “Project 2025”. He is opposed to gun control in all forms, opposed to abortion rights, gay rights, and basically opposed to everything that we consider to be liberal Canadian values. He should get along fine here. 
Yes, we really enjoyed Hoekstra.
You really chose well in sending him to represent you.
Who is this “you” you keep referring to?
“The American people,” I assume. Or, maybe, just, “The United States.”
Nobody here picked these doofuses, of course.
Have you ever considered sobering up before posting a zero-context mystery screed?
Indeed, yet they are you official representatives.
I’m just expressing my frustration.
Where is the fun in that?
Much to the embarrassment and chagrin of many of us.
I’m just rubbing it in.
Fucking Kushner as ambassador to France?
You should be embarrassed.
Modern communications means that ambassadors for decades have been not much more than a ceremonial position, and often given to incompetents.
And Trump is fractally corrupt and awful, so he’s going to pick the worst people for everything.
Way ahead of you.
Usually not brain donors, though.