{"id":72908,"date":"2025-07-16T11:02:29","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T02:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/16\/an-insult-malaysians-slam-nomination-of-alpha-male-nick-adams-as-us-ambassador-ntwnfb"},"modified":"2025-07-16T11:02:29","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T02:02:29","slug":"an-insult-malaysians-slam-nomination-of-alpha-male-nick-adams-as-us-ambassador","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=72908","title":{"rendered":"\u2018An insult\u2019: Malaysians slam nomination of \u2018alpha-male\u2019 Nick Adams as US ambassador"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Adams\u2019 comments about Israel have provoked particular concern in Malaysia, a staunch supporter of Palestine<\/p>\n<p>Former government ministers and youth politicians in Muslim-majority Malaysia have slammed a decision to nominate right-wing influencer Nick Adams as US ambassador to the country, calling it an insult to the nation.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2025\/jul\/11\/former-sydney-councillor-and-self-described-alpha-male-nick-adams-picked-by-trump-for-us-ambassador-for-malaysia-ntwnfb\">announced last week<\/a> that Nick Adams, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2025\/jul\/11\/who-is-nick-adams-australia-malaysia-usa-ambassador-sydney-ashfield-council-hooters-ntwnfb\">self-proclaimed \u201calpha male\u201d<\/a>, had been announced as ambassador to Malaysia, praising him as a \u201cincredible patriot\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/16\/an-insult-malaysians-slam-nomination-of-alpha-male-nick-adams-as-us-ambassador-ntwnfb\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adams\u2019 comments about Israel have provoked particular concern in Malaysia, a staunch supporter of PalestineFormer government ministers and youth politicians in Muslim-majority Malaysia have slammed a decision to nominate right-wing influencer Nick Adam&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":860,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,70,554,45,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-malaysia","category-trump-administration","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/860"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72909,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72908\/revisions\/72909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}