The ambassador role is so funny. It's like you have to compete for the good ones and then some people get stuck with the bad ones. The cost of actually running that embassy and really throwing the parties is much more. For the UK and France, the gap is 10 million a year that you have to fund out of pocket. "I mean, I've got to pay for the parties," DeSantis says.

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