Marie Yovanovitch, the previous U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, mentioned she sends a damning message to Russian President Vladimir Putin each single day.
Yovanovitch drinks her morning espresso from a mug emblazoned with the phrase, “Fuck You Putin,” she instructed Insider in an interview printed Thursday.
“I’m right here to let you know that your espresso within the morning tastes so significantly better in that mug,” she mentioned.
Yovanovitch bulk orders the mugs to provide out as items, she mentioned, as she does with the “Fuck You Putin” bracelet she wore throughout an look on “The Late Present with Stephen Colbert” earlier this month.
“Everyone form of appears to be like at it and gasps and laughs,” she instructed Insider of the mugs. “I feel they’re simply shocked as a result of I’m, you understand, a reasonably staid diplomat. They definitely wouldn’t count on me to provide them a present like that.”
The previous diplomat’s memoir “Classes From The Edge” particulars her service in Ukraine that led to 2019 following a smear marketing campaign from Donald Trump allies who feared she’d scupper their makes an attempt at digging up dust on Joe Biden.