{"id":1530406,"date":"2022-06-28T11:50:16","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T15:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1530406"},"modified":"2022-06-28T11:51:06","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T15:51:06","slug":"former-secdef-james-mad-dog-mattis-gets-hitched-by-elvis-impersonator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-secdef-james-mad-dog-mattis-gets-hitched-by-elvis-impersonator\/","title":{"rendered":"Former SecDef James \u2018Mad Dog\u2019 Mattis Gets Hitched By Elvis Impersonator"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fformer-secdef-james-mad-dog-mattis-gets-hitched-by-elvis-impersonator%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1530406&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Retired Marine four-star General <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/former-defense-secretary-james-mattis-denounces-president-trump-we-can-unite-without-him\/\">James \u2018Mad Dog\u2019 Mattis<\/a> tied the knot over the weekend \u2014 in a ceremony that was presided over by an Elvis Presley impersonator.<\/p>\n<p>According to a Monday\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/newsletters\/playbook-pm\/2022\/06\/27\/new-poll-voters-oppose-overturning-roe-back-court-reform-00042585\">report<\/a> from Politico\u2019s Playbook, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/watch-general-mattis-jabs-trump-he-got-his-spurs-in-a-letter-i-got-mine-on-the-battlefield\/\">Mattis<\/a> \u2014 who most recently served as Secretary of Defense under former President Donald Trump \u2014 wed physicist Christina Lomasney on Saturday. The happy couple actually held two separate ceremonies to celebrate their nuptials \u2014 one before a priest on the banks of the Columbia River, and a second in Las Vegas with Elvis close at hand. The two reportedly met in a bar.<\/p>\n<p>Robert Harward, retired\u00a0United States Navy SEAL and a former Deputy Commander of the United States Central Command, served as Mattis\u2019 best man. Harward was also offered a position in the Trump administration \u2014 he was tapped to replace retired General Michael Flynn as national security advisor \u2014 but turned down the job.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udc40 Former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis got married this weekend, per <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/playbookdc?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@playbookdc<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/S1356KERdr\">https:\/\/t.co\/S1356KERdr<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WH8FDHtwvb\">pic.twitter.com\/WH8FDHtwvb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Daniel Lippman (@dlippman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dlippman\/status\/1541746459703484418?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 28, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>People on Twitter had some fun with the idea of Mattis \u2014 whose Marine call sign was CHAOS \u2014 getting hitched by an Elvis impersonator.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShortly after this photo was taken, Mattis looked to his left, his eye began to twitch, and he proceeded to yell at Elvis. \u2018Fingers extended and joined when making a knife hand, You!&#8217;\u201d Army veteran Alex Plitsas joked.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Shortly after this photo was taken, Mattis looked to his left, his eye began to twitch, and he proceeded to yell at Elvis. \u201cFingers extended and joined when making a knife hand, You!\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kgSsXYAaxX\">https:\/\/t.co\/kgSsXYAaxX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Alex Plitsas \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@alexplitsas) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/alexplitsas\/status\/1541753691476213761?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 28, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cFree sequel idea for Baz Luhrmann,\u201d NBC reporter Daniel Arkin <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/d_arkin\/status\/1541790057836716038\">added<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIncredible photo. The Warrior Monk finally gets married,\u201d MSNBC columnist Eric Michael Garcia <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EricMGarcia\/status\/1541788041328615427\">tweeted<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Stars and Stripes Pentagon reporter Caitlin Doornbos <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CaitlinDoornbos\/status\/1541769809926529025\">added<\/a>, \u201cImagine meeting Mattis in a bar. Congrats to the happy couple.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo notes, this is perfect,\u201d Task and Purpose Army reporter Haley Britzky <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/halbritz\/status\/1541764078066188288\">commented<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>US News reporter Paul Shinkman shared photos of both ceremonies, noting that Mattis appeared to be wearing the same outfit in both photos, while his new bride wore a different dress to the Vegas chapel \u2014 the Little Church of the West \u2014 than she did for the riverside ceremony last week. \u201cCHAOS has one wedding uniform. Anything more is un-Spartan,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">CHAOS has one wedding uniform. Anything more is un-Spartan. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wrJ5DqjfRj\">https:\/\/t.co\/wrJ5DqjfRj<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/O5yt9E8thM\">pic.twitter.com\/O5yt9E8thM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Paul D. Shinkman (@PDShinkman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PDShinkman\/status\/1541763482810556417?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 28, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Military streaming network @Veteran_TV <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Veteran_TV\/status\/1541758935698489347\">summed it up<\/a> nicely: \u201cThe newlyweds met in a bar and had a wedding ceremony with a Vegas Elvis presiding. This man is a MARINE.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWarms our enlisted souls to see there was a Vegas element,\u201d @ZeroBlog30 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ZeroBlog30\/status\/1541756901804867586\">agreed<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retired Marine four-star General James \u2018Mad Dog\u2019 Mattis tied the knot over the weekend \u2014 in a ceremony that was presided over by an Elvis Presley impersonator. According to a Monday\u00a0report from Politico\u2019s Playbook, Mattis \u2014 who most recently served as Secretary of Defense under former President Donald Trump \u2014 wed physicist Christina Lomasney on &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":1530506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1530406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1530406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1530506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1530406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1530406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1530406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}