{"id":44585,"date":"2026-05-19T11:24:54","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T16:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=44585"},"modified":"2026-05-19T11:24:54","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T16:24:54","slug":"earl-landgrebe-award-nominee-68","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2026\/05\/19\/earl-landgrebe-award-nominee-68\/","title":{"rendered":"Earl Landgrebe Award Nominee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Secretary Mullins may be a repeat nominee, but his strenuous efforts here are worth a repeat.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bluesky-embed\" data-bluesky-uri=\"at:\/\/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3mlol7g4k3x23\" data-bluesky-cid=\"bafyreidc6mhevevtaszz3nksgixdvwgnlshm47x5zh3fttiqwwoszvafgu\">\n<p lang=\"en\">DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin: &#34;President Trump literally wrote the book on the art of the deal. He&#39;s the strongest leader of your and I&#39;s time. Period.&#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\/3mlol7g4k3x23?ref_src=embed\">2026-05-12T19:58:50.863Z<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/embed.bsky.app\/static\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin: &#8220;President Trump literally wrote the book on the art of the deal. He&#8217;s the strongest leader of your and I&#8217;s time. Period.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Since 12 May President Trump traveled to China, was feted, and returned with no deal.<\/p>\n<p>I shan&#8217;t predicate this nomination on a lack of deal, but rather the entire package of mistaken theories of how tariffs work, ICE surge, his bombast and self-celebration with the ornamentation of yesterdecade (&#8220;Trump class battleships?&#8221; Battleships went out with World War II, perhaps he thinks the <a href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/06\/05\/belated-movie-reviews-758\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">eponymous movie<\/a> was a documentary), his admiration of such dubious leaders as Putin, Duterte, and other such, inability to pass legislation or cut a deal, and failure to effectively interact with foreign leaders.<\/p>\n<p>Secretary Mullin surely ought to realize Trump is among the weakest, not the strongest, of leaders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secretary Mullins may be a repeat nominee, but his strenuous efforts here are worth a repeat. DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin: &#34;President Trump literally wrote the book on the art of the deal. He&#39;s the strongest leader of your and I&#39;s time. Period.&#34; &mdash; Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-05-12T19:58:50.863Z DHS Secretary Markwayne \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2026\/05\/19\/earl-landgrebe-award-nominee-68\/\"> 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-44585","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\/44585","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=44585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44586,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44585\/revisions\/44586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}