After the British envoy was sent, the diplomats feared to express their criticism of Trump in writing.

Diplomats around the world have different traditions in describing the defects and characteristics of foreign governments.

The ultra-fast resignation of the British ambassador to the United States on Wednesday after a leak of his correspondence criticising the Trump administration has caused foreign diplomats in Washington to shudder as they are paid to send candid evaluations to their home countries.

The British Ambassador, Kim Darroch, described the Trump government as "inept" and "dysfunctional", causing tweets from President Donald Trump in which he called the ambassador a "mad idiot" with whom the United States would no longer work.

The resignation of Darroch has already sparked discussions in embassies about reducing access to diplomatic cables and moderating the tone of assessments of the Trump administration's management of national and Global Affairs. Powerful colleagues and Friends of Darroch also sought to keep their expression of private solidarity with the envoy in order to avoid angering the American president, although many admitted to sending cables of the same denigration to their own capitals.

"I think we are all shocked, frankly, by what happened to Kim," said a European diplomat who, like others, spoke anonymously to avoid angering Trump. "It shows that we have to be careful about how we explain things to our capitals and how we share information within our own system. I know I sent cables of a similar nature."

In Washington, foreign diplomats have the task of keeping a polite and respectful exterior while passing through classified cables that reveal a frank and confused vision of the United States government. Senior British officials said that the job had become much more difficult after Darroch's resignation.

"The foundations on which we have worked throughout our careers suddenly feel like they are being called into question," said British Foreign Service chief Simon McDonald on Wednesday. "We need to reassure and think."

"You were just doing your job," McDonald told Darroch in response to his letter of resignation.

In his release note, Darroch said: "the current situation prevents me from fulfilling my role as I would like".

Diplomats around the world have different traditions in describing the defects and characteristics of foreign governments. One Asian diplomat, for example, noted that Darroch's dramatic prose, describing an American president whose career could end "in dishonor and downfall," would not fly into his country.

A Latin American diplomat presented a similar point of view. "I'm a little old-fashioned. I would not use such language," he said. "What we normally do - at least we used to - is to take the opinions you read in the news, the people you talk to ... and say, " Look, the opinion makers in Washington are reflecting everything you want to say. ... But you've never said it so directly in your own words. It was a little too strong for me. "

In Europe, especially in Britain, a more frank style is encouraged.

"There is a rich history of British ambassadors who have written brilliant evocative books and a completely personal end message," said Ron Neumann, president of the American Academy of Diplomacy. "This is perfectly in line with the British diplomatic tradition."

The island nation that raised William Shakespeare, however, did not have a monopoly on scathing diplomatic prose, and other diplomats had expressed a desire to limit access to sensitive cables for fear of future leaks.

"We tend to give access to people who should not have access and action needs to be taken," said another European diplomat.

"We are now very concerned about the frankness with which we are accountable to our countries of origin," said another diplomat.

Jeff Rathke, a former American diplomat, said that diplomats still face the risk of sharing an overly candid view, and that Darroch's departure could alter this calculation, but that the additional warning will not last forever.

"If I were a diplomat working in Washington today, I would be careful not to express things in my own voice," he said. "It is much easier to attribute what you think to others and to quote them. But I don't think that's going to stop the diplomats here from telling their capitals what's going on."

The departure of Darroch created a difficult situation for the Trump loyalists who spent a lot of time with him during briefings, phone calls and the many evenings at the British Embassy.

Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, R-S. C., For example, publicly deplored Darroch's departure, but chose to blame the media rather than the person who leaked the secret cables or the president, who publicly looted Darroch.

"Kim Darroch has done an outstanding job as ambassador and regrets that he has resigned his post," Graham tweeted. "He got a rough deal from the press."

Former Trump official Sebastian Gorka has gone another way, denouncing Darroch as someone who said "stupid lies about @realdonaldtrump in a cable". Gorka has repeatedly accepted invitations from the ambassador to parties and other embassy functions.

After the cables were published in the British tabloid Daily Mail, the White House quickly invited Darroch to a dinner at the White House on Monday. In his tweets, Trump called Darroch a "wacko" and a "very stupid guy," noting that diplomats had proven that, as Darroch said, Trump was completely unfiltered.

"He had access, he was in regular contact with the administration," said another European diplomat in Washington. "What he brought back, is that false? I don't think. I'm not going to quote our Reports at home, but there may be similarities."

The United States was faced with a high-profile incident: sensitive leaks were made public with the publication in 2010 by WikiLeaks of hundreds of thousands of State Department cables. At that time, Americans seemed just as capable as their British counterparts of sharing the blooming evaluations of their host countries.

A 2008 telegram from the US embassy in Moscow, discussing who was really responsible in Russia - the then President, Dmitri Medvedev, or his predecessor, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin-had called Medvedev "Putin's Batman Robin", while Medvedev was officially the main partner.

While Medvedev was " afraid, hesitant," another cable said, Putin was "an alpha dog."

In Paris, the American embassy described the then President, Nicolas Sarkozy, as "naked emperor" and noted his "lean and authoritarian style".

American officials at the time largely rejected the possibility of diplomatic spillovers on such descriptions.

"The fact is that governments deal with the United States because it is in their interest, not because they like us, not because they trust us, not because they believe we can keep it a secret," US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said in an interview. Pentagon Briefing of November 2010.