Condoleezza Rice

George W. Bush's Secretary of State famously wrote the "Chicken Kiev" speech, today considered one of the worst presidential speeches in the history of the United States. In August 1991, after spending some time with Gorbachev in Russia, Bush went to Kiev to address the Ukrainian parlament ahead of the historical referendum about Ukrainian independence. Rice's speech characterized a vote for independence as suicidal, painting those Ukrainians that wanted independence from the former Soviet Union as violent nationalists - an astonishingly tone-deaf take, given the long history of Ukrainian suffering under Soviet occupation, stretching from Stalin's genocidal famine ("Holodomor") to events as recent as the Chernobyl disaster.

Once Donald J. Trump came to power, Rice endorsed former Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson for Secretary of State and alleged rapist Brett Kavanaugh for the United States Supreme Court.