Trump taps Walker for Ambassador to Bahamas

Herschel Walker

As of Wednesday, December 18, 2024

By RASHAD ROLLE

Tribune News Editor

rrolle@tribunemedia.net

UNITED States President-elect Donald Trump said he will nominate Herschel Walker to be US ambassador to The Bahamas.

The US hasn’t had an ambassador to The Bahamas in 13 years.

“Herschel has spent decades serving as an Ambassador to our nation’s youth, our men and women in the military, and athletes at home and abroad,” Mr Trump wrote on Truth Social, a media platform owned by Trump Media & Technology Group.

“A successful businessman, philanthropist, former Heisman Trophy winner, and NFL Great, Herschel has been a tireless advocate for youth sports. During my first term, he served as co-chair of the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition. Herschel has travelled to over 400 military installations around the world, removing the stigma surrounding mental health. He represented the United States at the 1992 Winter Olympics as a member of the US bobsled team.

Mr Walker’s candidacy for a Georgia Senate seat in 2022 was marred by allegations of domestic abuse and a report that he paid for a girlfriend’s abortion despite his strong anti-abortion stance. He lost the race.

In September, 2023, President Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate Calvin Smyre as US ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to The Bahamas. However, Smyre was never confirmed.

Nicole Avant served as the most recent United States ambassador to The Bahamas, holding the position from 2009 to 2011.

During President Obama’s administration, Cassandra Butts was nominated as ambassador in 2014, but she passed away before her confirmation could be completed.

President Donald Trump nominated Doug “Papa” Manchester in 2017, but Manchester withdrew his candidacy in 2019. Following this, Trump put forward William Douglass as a nominee the next year.

After President Trump lost the 2020 election, Douglass’ nomination was also withdrawn.

bahamarich 9 hours, 58 minutes ago

OK the brilant Hershel Walker will join the Brave Davis pirates. What a perfect pair

whatsup 9 hours, 47 minutes ago

Hershel Walker will be representing President Trump...a Republican who is fully aware of the corruption in this country.

quavaduff 7 hours, 15 minutes ago

It's an insult to the Bahamas from the trash Trump...walker has a sub 70 IQ.

zemilou 2 hours, 31 minutes ago

A great role model for all to aspire to, especially our young men.

"Despite his anti-abortion beliefs, even in cases of rape or incest, allegations emerged during his campaign that he had paid for two former girlfriends to have abortions. His ex-wife also alleged that he held a gun to her head and threatened to kill her.

"He was also forced to clarify how many children to the public. News reports in June 2022 revealed Walker had two additional children that he had not previously spoken about publicly – these reports came on the heels of Walker repeatedly criticising absentee fathers, especially in Black households." (From https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202…)

"He is also almost indescribably vapid, a man with what seems to be a shockingly light grasp of the most basic of concepts (he at least seems to recognize his own intellectual limitations, saying, “I’m not that smart”). He struggles to string together a coherent sentence. Climate change, he has said, is not worth fighting because “since we don’t control the air, our good air decided to float over to China’s bad air so when China gets our good air, their bad air got to move. So it moves over to our good air space. Then now we got to clean that back up, while they’re messing ours up.” (From https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr…)

We are getting smaller by the day in the political eyes of Washington DC.

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