And this is the man that in a moment of dementia, the Trump administration nominated to be the next American ambassador to Kuwait. More on Amer Ghalib can be found here: “Senate to Hold Confirmation Hearings for Disgraced Michigan Mayor Amer Ghalib,” by Benjamin Baird, Middle East Forum, October 22, 2025:
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee convenes tomorrow, Thursday, October 23, 2025, to consider Hamtramck, Michigan Mayor Amer Ghalib’s nomination as U.S. ambassador to Kuwait. After facing months of delays stemming from Ghalib’s controversial past, the Senate now has the opportunity to demand on-the-record answers from Ghalib regarding his abysmal qualifications and character. Members should grill the nominee for lying to media and government officials about his medical schooling, and they should ask tough questions about Ghalib’s use of racist and hateful commentary aimed at African Americans, Jews, Christians, and the gay community. Ghalib should also answer for his administration of Hamtramck, which is plagued by scandals involving systemic voter fraud and the adoption of Islamist policies.
Thursday’s hearing will give the committee the chance to ask Ghalib about his apparent habit of padding his resumé. Prior to his election as mayor in July 2021, the local Hamtramck Review asked the candidate why he allowed his supporters to refer to him as “Dr. Ghalib” despite his not being a physician.
“People call me doctor because I finished medical school in an American foreign medical school, and I’m still working on equivalency to obtain full certification,” he told the newspaper, adding he was “waiting for residency,” or the post-graduate training required for full certification as a practicing doctor. However, when Ghalib spoke to the Detroit Free Press a few months later, there was no uncertainty about his qualifications. He insisted he never referred to himself as a doctor, because he wasn’t certified as one. Certification records from Michigan show he is an active registered nurse.
Ghalib’s assertion that he completed medical school was used to buttress his credibility as a diplomatic nominee when the Trump Administration announced his appointment, declaring that Ghalib “earned his M.D. from the Ross University School of Medicine” and continued to “serve his community as a proud healthcare professional.”
Responding to a press inquiry, Adtalem Global Education, the parent company to Ross University School of Medicine, verified that Ghalib “attended” classes, “but did not earn a degree.” In other words, the would-be ambassador to Kuwait is a Caribbean medical school dropout….
Unfortunately, Ghalib’s relationship with the truth is hardly his only problem. Members of the Senate Foreign Relationships Committee will need to consider a nominee who has endorsed statements referring to African Americans as “animal” and “inhuman,” and Jews as “monkeys.”
Arabic language social media posts first highlighted by the Middle East Forum cast Ghalib as a foul-mouthed political novice. He once shared an online meme mocking black people as alcoholics and looters, inviting a torrent of racist commentary on his Facebook page. He used derogatory terms to describe Christians and accused weak and insincere Arab leaders of secretly becoming Jewish.
Crucially, Hamtramck‘s mayor praised Saddam Hussein as a “martyr” and denounced the “Satanic media” coverage of the Iraqi dictator, whose army invaded Kuwait, executing and torturing its citizens under occupation.Ghalib also decried the media’s treatment of the Muslim Brotherhood, a violent Islamist movement banned throughout much of the Persian Gulf….
Even if Amer Ghalib were not all those things — a racist, an antisemite, and a liar about his medical qualifications — his praise of Saddam Hussein, who invaded Kuwait, and who is hated by all Kuwaitis, makes him the worst possible choice to be our ambassador to Kuwait. Did no one in the administration realize what his praise of Saddam Hussein would mean to the Kuwaitis?
࿗Infidel࿘ says
The good thing about this appointment is that he’ll be out of the US, if only for a while. Not that it improves much the lot of the people at Hamtramck
That said, I had no idea that he was supportive of Saddam Hussein. It will be interesting how the Kuwaitis receive him
Hugh Fitzgerald says
And one more thing: Amer Gharib is from Yemen. In the Arab pecking order, the Yemenis are seen as qat-chewing primitives The Kuwaitis will be insulted if a mere “Yemeni” has been sent to them as ambassador.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
sunni or zaidi? I’d suspect the Kuwaitis would hate it more if it were the latter?
tgusa says
In some cases President Trump has a Rodney King, “can we all just get along” view of things. It is a simpletons way of thinking and I dont understand it.
jerry glenn says
Even Trump sometimes nods.
tgusa says
It is a dangerous game we are playing in the West but I am happy that President Trump is reasserting his role as the leader of he free world.
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Lizabee says
This is insane. Do we send a Communist American as an ambassador to Communist China?
Why send an anti-West, anti-American Muslim from an Islamicized American city to be the ambassador to an Islamic supremacist country? He’s a perfect example of a stealth Jihadist.
Best to send a Dr. Zuhdi Jasser-type Muslim as ambassador to an anti-West Islamic country.
Trump is so blinded by money that he can’t see the back-stabbing threat of Islam to America and all of Western Civilization. (See UK.)
Santa Claus says
Did anyone ask him “straight up” if he is Muslim? He sounds like another ” Straight to Iran Rashida Tlaib” security leak from either him or his staff. Have you ever heard of “HUDNA” or TANAZZOLL or TAQIYYA?
JustJim says
According to the article, it sounds like his graduating from a U.S. medical school in a foreign country, and being a nurse, is probably a high school g.e.d. certificate, and changing bed pans in a nursing home. Please prove me wrong! Bwahahahahaha.
gravenimage says
Santa Clause, Amer Ghalib is well know as Muslim.
OLD GUY says
This might be fun to watch in the senate where he most likely will get approved based on his excellent record of accomplishments and support for America. At least he won’t be a mayor of an American city. Kuwaiti awaits his arrival.
jewdog says
This is symptomatic of the terrible advice Trump is getting. It’s right up there with the idea that Hamas would voluntarily disarm, or that the Muslim “peace keepers” would actually disarm them.
Unfortunately, I don’t think Trump knows too much about Islam, not enough anyway, to discern nuances.
Meanwhile, I’m disturbed, but not really surprised by Trump’s grandiose expectations growing out of the ceasefire deal. It seems to follow a pattern: Pressure the more malleable party, Zelensky or Netanyahu, to make concessions for a quick fix so that Trump can ride in on his white horse and save the world. He’s an ignoramous and can be a dangerous egomaniac. At least he doesn’t think that Hamas is a branch of the NAACP.
gravenimage says
Introducing the Racist, Antisemitic, Lying, Scandal-Ridden Amer Ghalib, the Next US Ambassador to Kuwait
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Insanity picking this thug.