{"id":17789,"date":"2026-01-16T05:20:41","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T05:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trumps-iceland-ambassador-nominee-apologizes-for-52nd-state-joking\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T05:20:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T05:20:41","slug":"trumps-iceland-ambassador-nominee-apologizes-for-52nd-state-joking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trumps-iceland-ambassador-nominee-apologizes-for-52nd-state-joking\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s Iceland ambassador nominee apologizes for 52nd state &#8216;joking&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Rep. Billy Long (R-Mo.), President Trump&#8217;s pick to be the U.S. ambassador to Iceland, on Thursday apologized for joking about Iceland becoming the 52nd state with himself as governor. &ldquo;There was nothing serious about that, I was with some people, who I hadn&rsquo;t met for three years&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/5692007-billy-long-apologizes-iceland-joke\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Rep. Billy Long (R-Mo.), President Trump&#8217;s pick to be the U.S. ambassador to Iceland, on Thursday apologized for joking about Iceland becoming the 52nd state with himself as governor. &ldquo;There was nothing serious about that, I was with some people, who I hadn&rsquo;t met for three years&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17790,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}