{"id":42644,"date":"2025-07-22T12:13:41","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T17:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=42644"},"modified":"2025-07-22T12:13:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T17:13:41","slug":"news-that-sounds-like-a-joke-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2025\/07\/22\/news-that-sounds-like-a-joke-7\/","title":{"rendered":"News That Sounds Like A Joke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of weeks ago President Trump nominated right wing influencer Nick Adams for an ambassadorship to Malaysia. He sounds like a character out of a cartoon:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p id=\"anchor-10ff9e\" class=\"body-graf\">[Adams] is also known for displays of bravado about his own machismo, including his <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NickAdamsinUSA\/status\/1635174082470895618\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">love of the restaurant chain Hooters.<\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-8e33ff\" class=\"body-graf\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NickAdamsinUSA\/status\/1836642034628678026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">In one post, he wrote:\u00a0<\/a>&#8220;I am based. I have rizz. I am smart. I am charismatic. I have superior genetics. I am strong. I am bold. I am intense. I have large amounts of testosterone. I am never wrong. I don\u2019t apologize. I am an alpha male.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-09cab4\" class=\"body-graf\">&#8220;I never asked to be turned into a sex icon, God made me this attractive,&#8221;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NickAdamsinUSA\/status\/1726809384414843021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">he wrote in another<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-baadeb\" class=\"body-graf\">In addition to the life lessons,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NickAdamsinUSA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Adams praises Trump in daily posts on social media<\/a>. &#8220;President Trump is the highest IQ President this nation has ever had, and it\u2019s not particularly close!&#8221;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NickAdamsinUSA\/status\/1942539126181384284\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">he wrote on X this week<\/a>. Last week,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NickAdamsinUSA\/status\/1940165892010119669\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">he wrote<\/a>: &#8220;President Trump always wins, which means America always wins. Remember that.&#8221;\u00a0<em>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/white-house\/trump-nominates-self-described-alpha-male-influencer-nick-adams-ambass-rcna218024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>NBC News<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>That last paragraph may have been savvy brown-nosing, although I don&#8217;t generally expect Australians to engage in such behaviors.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if he was confirmed by the GOP Senate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of weeks ago President Trump nominated right wing influencer Nick Adams for an ambassadorship to Malaysia. He sounds like a character out of a cartoon: [Adams] is also known for displays of bravado about his own machismo, including his love of the restaurant chain Hooters. In one post, \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2025\/07\/22\/news-that-sounds-like-a-joke-7\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42645,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42644\/revisions\/42645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}