{"id":2727,"date":"2026-07-02T20:43:36","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T20:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=2727"},"modified":"2026-07-02T20:43:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T20:43:36","slug":"trump-goon-makes-baffling-pitch-to-tourists-about-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=2727","title":{"rendered":"Trump Goon Makes Baffling Pitch to Tourists About America"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>Eating fast food in the car while talking on the phone is one \u201cextraordinary\u201d experience that America has to offer to foreign visitors. <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=2725\">Alex Jones Suffers Ultimate Humiliation in Infowars Saga<\/a><\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s what NATO Ambassador Matthew Whitaker suggested Thursday on Fox News as he explained what makes the United States an \u201cawesome\u201d place ahead of the country\u2019s 250th anniversary. Rather than, say, talk up the country\u2019s geography or diversity, Whitaker, 56, opted to praise Texas-based gas station and convenience store chain Buc-ee\u2019s.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>On <i>Fox and Friends<\/i>, host Brian Kilmeade asked Whitaker about foreigners visiting the U.S. for the World Cup and the impressions they\u2019ve had.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s your take as you see them really enjoying our country, maybe things that we take for granted? What are your thoughts seeing that?\u201d Kilmeade wondered.<\/p>\n<p>Whitaker said how pleased he was that they were enjoying the \u201creal America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople are enjoying the United States of America because it\u2019s an awesome place, and we have extraordinary things like Buc-ee\u2019s, like Chick-fil-a, uh, you know, just some\u2014very convenient to eat in your car as you\u2019re, you know, doing, uh, having a phone call,\u201c Whitaker said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, it\u2019s\u2014it\u2019s an amazing country, and I\u2019m glad that people are finally, uh, you know, kind of discovering what real America is,\u201c he continued. \u201dYou know, being from Des Moines, Iowa, obviously, uh, I like it when they see places outside of New York and Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Whitaker was promptly criticized online for hyping up the ability to simultaneously eat, talk, and drive on U.S. roadways. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know we live in a heavily car-dependent country, but framing the ability to eat rest-stop food in your car as a defining national triumph is incredibly bleak,\u201d one commentator chimed in on X.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=2723\">Keystone Kash Orders All-Out FBI Effort to Prove Crackpot Theory<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another observer mocked Whitaker: \u201c(Trying to talk up America): uh you can go to a kfc and call your mom from the parking lot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Others questioned why he didn\u2019t use the opportunity to highlight the country\u2019s national parks, or if they were somehow \u201cless awesome\u201d than eating fast food in a car. <\/p>\n<p>Another critic argued that Whitaker had little choice but to talk about gas stations because he could not honestly make the claim that the U.S. was leading the field on important topics like its healthcare system and school safety.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy didn\u2019t the ambassador use this opportunity to highlight America\u2019s healthcare system, the cost of living, the generous paid time off\/family leave policy or the safety of our public schools?\u201d progressive activist Jordan Uhl wrote wryly on X.<\/p>\n<p>Others joked that while the U.S. may have plenty of problems on its 250th anniversary, at least it has Buc-ee\u2019s. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs our nation\u2019s 250th birthday approaches, I was reflecting on our alleged greatness and, I must admit, coming up a little short. Thankfully Whitaker set me straight,\u201d writer Doug Henwood quipped on X. <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=2721\">Trump\u2019s Fat Fingers Are All Over My Melania Lawsuit: Wolff<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eating fast food in the car while talking on the phone is one \u201cextraordinary\u201d experience that America has to offer to foreign visitors. Read more Alex Jones Suffers Ultimate Humiliation in Infowars Saga That\u2019s what NATO Ambassador Matthew Whitaker suggested Thursday on Fox News as he explained what makes the United States an \u201cawesome\u201d place [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2726,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Trump Goon Makes Baffling Pitch to Tourists About America - Nationwide Inter State Movers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=2727\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Trump Goon Makes Baffling Pitch to Tourists About America - Nationwide Inter State Movers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Eating fast food in the car while talking on the phone is one \u201cextraordinary\u201d experience that America has to offer to foreign visitors. 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