{"id":44500,"date":"2026-05-10T11:27:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T16:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=44500"},"modified":"2026-05-10T11:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T16:27:09","slug":"earl-landgrebe-award-nominee-67","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2026\/05\/10\/earl-landgrebe-award-nominee-67\/","title":{"rendered":"Earl Landgrebe Award Nominee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rep Tom Emmer (R-MN) has had a rough time with President Trump, especially when it comes to the race for Speaker of the House. Emmer was the official nominee of the Republicans for the position for a couple of hours, and then Trump brought the hammer down and, before Emmer even ascended to the chair, he was booted out.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than taking revenge, he appears to be striving for our much-sought after nomination:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bluesky-embed\" data-bluesky-uri=\"at:\/\/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3ml6u3bwvjp23\" data-bluesky-cid=\"bafyreibvrsobhoopjpdwtb64jthuubuvume26bmsiiicorj2xqwcfiuyuq\">\n<p lang=\"en\">Emmer: &#34;Donald Trump has never been stronger. He&#39;s become more than Donald Trump. He is an icon of the ages. When he speaks, people listen.&#34;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc?ref_src=embed\">Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc\/post\/3ml6u3bwvjp23?ref_src=embed\">2026-05-06T13:55:00.159Z<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/embed.bsky.app\/static\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Emmer: &#8220;Donald Trump has never been stronger. He&#8217;s become more than Donald Trump. He is an icon of the ages. When he speaks, people listen.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>An icon of the ages? Crazy. Perhaps known as the <em>worst President of the United States<\/em>, but that&#8217;s really a statement for historians fifty years from now.<\/p>\n<p>Or is he setting Trump up for a revenge shot, metaphorical of course, heard &#8217;round the world? I dunno about that. I remember when he was running for Minnesota governor and was uttering balderdash about restaurant servers making plenty of money. He&#8217;s not too bright.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep Tom Emmer (R-MN) has had a rough time with President Trump, especially when it comes to the race for Speaker of the House. Emmer was the official nominee of the Republicans for the position for a couple of hours, and then Trump brought the hammer down and, before Emmer \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2026\/05\/10\/earl-landgrebe-award-nominee-67\/\"> 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-44500","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\/44500","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=44500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44501,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44500\/revisions\/44501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}