In August 2020, the president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, went to the U.S. ambassador with an extraordinary request. Upon arriving in El Salvador, Johnson told his staff that he wanted Bukele’s support in reducing U.S.-bound immigration, the Trump administration’s top priority with the country. Johnson’s embrace of the president struck some of his critics in El Salvador and Washington as excessive for a diplomat. “It was great to spend some time in our Miami home with El Salvadoran President Bukele,” Johnson wrote on a photo he posted to his LinkedIn account. “In some recent discussions that I had with people in Washington, D.C., we talked about a second term for President Bukele,” Johnson said.