Quit if you disagree with Trump: White House to diplomats

The White House on Monday warned State Department officials that they should leave their jobs if they did not agree with President Trump’s agenda.

Career officials at the State Department are circulating a so-called dissent cable, which says Trump’s executive order on ‘Muslim ban’ will not make the nation safer, and might instead deepen the threat, reports New York Times.
“These career bureaucrats have a problem with it?” Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary, told reporters. “They should either get with the programme or they can go.”
On Monday night, Trump fired acting Attorney General Sally Q. Yates for refusing to enforce the visa ban. In her place, Trump named Dana J. Boente, United States attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, to serve as acting attorney general until Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama is confirmed.
The reverberations extended beyond Washington.
Corporate chieftains from Detroit to Silicon Valley sharply criticised the ban, saying it was inconsistent with their values. Trump also faced mounting legal challenges, as two Democratic-leaning states, Massachusetts and Washington, signaled they would attack the policy in court and a Muslim advocacy group filed a lawsuit calling it an unconstitutional religious test.
At the White House, where questions about the ban overshadowed all other issues on Monday, Spicer acknowledged the State Department’s dissent channel has long been a way for its staff to register objections over administration policies. But he displayed little patience for it.
“The president has a very clear vision,” Spicer said. “He’s been clear on it since the campaign, he’s been clear on it since taking office — that he’s going to put the country first.”
“If somebody has a problem with that agenda,” he added, “that does call into question whether or not they should continue in that post.” The Financial Express.