Trump Names N.Y. Jets Owner Woody Johnson as Ambassador to U.K.

[highplainsdem]

Source: Daily Beast

A transition official confirmed on Thursday that President-elect Donald Trump will nominate New York Jets owner Robert Wood Woody Johnson IV as the U.S. ambassador to the United Kingdom. Johnson is a long-time Republican donor who served as a finance chair for Jeb Bushs GOP primary campaign before formally endorsing Trump in May, following the former Florida governors exit from the race. He has been chairman and chief executive of Johnson Company Inc.a private investment firm founded in the late-70sand purchased the Jets for $635 million in 2000. His appointment to top diplomat to the U.K. comes just as the National Football League has made a concerted effort to ramp up its influence with a British audience.

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Read more: http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2017/01/19/trump-names-n-y-jets-owner-woody-johnson-as-ambassador-to-u-k.html

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Johnson of course is a big Trump donor. From last Septemberr:

http://jetswire.usatoday.com/2016/09/30/jets-owner-woody-johnson-still-raising-money-for-donald-trump/

Jets owner and notorious GOP fundraiser Woody Johnson has continued to make it rain for Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump.

Johnson, along with Hollywood producer Steve Mnuchin, helped orchestrate an $18 million haul for the Republican nominee, the Trump campaign confirmed on Tuesday.

[onecaliberal]

1. Wtf

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. What the actual fuck?

The most coveted ambassadorship goes to some rich douche who owns a football team?

[karynnj]

12. This is actually the norm -- the first Obama ambassador to the UK was a Chicago man, who headed

Obama's finance committee on his campaign ... and also the man, while vacationing in Nantucket, mentioned him in 2004 to John and Teresa Kerry.

The norm is that the plum European ambassadorships go to people who helped you win the nomination.

[1965Comet]

3. As a Pats fan...

I can only assume our relationship with the UK will soon be a dumpster fire not unlike the one in northern NJ...

[Kber]

4. Perhaps

But as a Jets fan, I'm hoping his absence from the country bodes well for my team.

[1965Comet]

8. I hope you are correct,

Our rivalry is better when the teams are more evenly matched. Now that Rex Ryan is no longer in our division, I don't care about blowing anyone out anymore!

[3catwoman3]

5. There's a name just bursting...

...with double entendre potential.

[Liberalagogo]

9. It's been done:

[3catwoman3]

10. I have no doubt of that.

I don't follow American football, so his name was not familiar to me.

[Liberalagogo]

13. I was referring to

the sexual innuendo of the name, actually. Never heard of the guy as a real person until this story.

[hibbing]

6. wtf

I quite drinking a few years ago, I don't know if I can stay sober through the next week, let alone the next four years.


Peace

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

7. The only way that dude's name could be any funnier is if it was Cock Dickinson. bt

[Vinca]

11. Let me guess. He's qualified because he once ate a scone?

[SticksnStones]

14. Naw, it's because he already speaks the language

[Feeling the Bern]

15. He had a layover at Heath Row.

[SticksnStones]

16. He once ate a Heath Bar...

[Feeling the Bern]

17. He might know Taxman is the Heath.

[SticksnStones]

18. ...

That's 'Mr.' Heath
- Mr. Wilson

[Volaris]

20. Because he wants a 'football' team in London.