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Ah, so that's where Hoekstra ended up. In Trump's first term, he was ambassador to the Netherlands (where he was born) and quickly became a national target of ridicule and mockery after being woefully unprepared for encountering journalists who try to do their jobs and call out bullshit when they see it.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jan/11/netherlands-holland-peter-hoekstra-ambassador
The aftermath of Hoekstra claiming there were no go zones for Christians in the Netherlands, they were burning cars, burning politicians.
He denied saying it at first, calling it fake news, after their news published video of him saying it, this happened, the video.
What a fucking tool this guy. Holland, MI is entirely different from Holland, Netherlands, (Hoekstra represented the hard right SW MI dutch enclave around Holland, MI, 70 some percent republican votes last I checked.
Well, it's worse - in the same interview in which he claimed that it was fake news that he said what he did in fact say, he denied claiming it was fake news.
After numerous more diplomatic faux pas, he spent much of his ambassadorship (a position in which he is supposed to be neutral with respect to the politics of the host country) stumping for an almost comically racist neo-Nazi party, whose leader openly admitted to taking money from the Kremlin and claimed black people are genetically inferior.
Can't imagine why Canadians would have an issue with him.
As the old saying goes: If you ain't much, you'll be ripped to shreds and humiliated by the Dutch.