{"id":511,"date":"2026-05-27T08:07:51","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T08:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=511"},"modified":"2026-05-27T08:07:51","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T08:07:51","slug":"arizona-voters-apologize-to-jamaica-for-kari-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=511","title":{"rendered":"Arizona voters apologize to Jamaica for Kari Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President Donald Trump recently nominated Kari Lake, the failed Arizona Republican candidate for senator and governor, to be US ambassador to Jamaica \u2014 and Arizonans are expressing their chagrin.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe former Phoenix newscaster doesn\u2019t have any obvious connection to the country, other than having vacationed there on repeated occasions, and her history in the public eye evidences a distinct lack of diplomatic tact,\u201d reported Phoenix New Times’ Zach Buchanan on Tuesday. \u201cBut who knows, maybe the post will fit her like a glove. Maybe it\u2019s not, as many in the political realm see it, an obvious demotion to get a troublesome Trump acolyte out of his orbit.\u201d<\/p>\n

Prior to being Trump\u2019s ambassadorial nominee to Jamaica, he tried to appoint as director of Voice of America, an international broadcaster funded by the US government, with the goal of transforming it into a right-wing partisan outlet modeled after One America News (OAN). After a judge ruled her ineligible to serve in that position, Trump pivoted to appointing Lake as ambassador to Jamaica.<\/p>\n

“President Trump on Monday appointed Kari Lake, a fierce ally of the president who had led the administration\u2019s efforts to shutter Voice of America and other federally funded news groups, as the next ambassador to Jamaica,” the New York Times reported at the time. “Her appointment, if confirmed by the Senate, would end her tumultuous time at the parent agency for federally funded news groups that broadcast to countries with limited press freedom, such as China, Russia and Iran.”<\/p>\n

Lake was not the only failed MAGA gubernatorial candidate to be awarded an ambassadorship as a consolation prize.<\/p>\n

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“Lake\u2019s nomination coincided with the president also tapping Pennsylvania\u2019s Doug Mastriano \u2014 another prominent Republican election denier who launched a gubernatorial campaign that failed \u2014 to serve as U.S. ambassador to Slovakia,” MS NOW\u2019s Benen reported at the time. “The far-right state senator will also need to be confirmed by the Republican-led Senate. Time will tell when and whether Lake and Mastriano receive the support they\u2019ll need on Capitol Hill, but their nominations are emblematic of a larger pattern: The White House sure does like to hand out ambassadorships to those whose earlier political plans didn\u2019t quite work out.”<\/p>\n

Yet while Trump may like the idea of Lake as America\u2019s representative to Jamaica, Buchanan reported that many Arizonans do not feel the same way.<\/p>\n

\u201cSaid Instagram user bluej1801: \u2018My apologies to the good people of Jamaica,\u2019\u201d Buchanan reported. \u201cAdded user \u2018Little.glimmers: What a kick in the crotch to Jamaica, sheesh.\u2019 User Trejondunkley appeared to take the news hard: \u2018As a Jamaican Arizonan, I just gotta ask what I personally did to deserve this.\u2019 User Ciao_sasa had an alternate idea: \u2018Mars would be better.\u2019 On Facebook, Atom was thinking along similar lines: \u2018OK, and hear me out, but have we considered somewhere more exotic and maybe further away?\u2019 For Troy, the first reaction was perverse curiosity: \u2018Can\u2019t wait to hear her patois.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Buchanan added, \u201cJim seemed to recognize the reality of the political machinations at play: \u2018Donald is slowly moving her to Antarctica.\u2019 Along those lines, James made fun of Lake\u2019s avowed enthusiasm for the job, although he made a horrible pun in the process: \u2018Hey Marco, I\u2019m making Kari Lake an Ambassador to a Caribbean Island!\u2019 \u2018Oh, Jamaica?\u2019 \u2018No! She WANTS to go!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

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