{"id":1797210,"date":"2023-01-06T09:19:48","date_gmt":"2023-01-06T14:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1797210"},"modified":"2023-01-06T09:19:53","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T14:19:53","slug":"trump-reacts-to-being-nominated-for-house-speaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-reacts-to-being-nominated-for-house-speaker\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Reacts to Being Nominated for House Speaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/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%2Ftrump-reacts-to-being-nominated-for-house-speaker%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=1797210&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/3e98cc54-a9c2-4f83-8d4c-bc504d8a2607.webp\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p id=\"isPasted\">The House speaker circus remained intense on day three, with Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) remaining incapable of cobbling together the votes needed to win. He\u2019s still short of 218, with some 20 Republican House members firmly entrenched in opposition to his speakership bid.<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The motion to adjourn barely limped passed the finish line, subjecting us to another media day where they claim a deal is close between McCarthy and this bloc of Republicans who are not budging. These 20 rebels have forced the lower chamber to have debates in the last 36 hours than in the past 18 months. The failure of McCarthy to secure the votes is his fault.<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">BREAKING: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepMattGaetz?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@RepMattGaetz<\/a> just nominated Donald Trump for Speaker of the House. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/reBYDFzUvf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/reBYDFzUvf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Townhall.com (@townhallcom) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/townhallcom\/status\/1611143953981505536?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 5, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span>The anti-McCarthy wing has put forward a string of candidates, from Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) to Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL). There is no incentive for them back down because their main opposition\u2014McCarthy\u2014 doesn\u2019t have the votes for speaker. It was inevitable that someone from this group would nominate former President Donald Trump, and Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) did yesterday. It wasn\u2019t lost on the former president, who posted a meme that reportedly had one former GOP congressman declare Trump the winner of the \u201cmeme wars\u201d (via\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/tv\/he-wins-the-meme-wars-ex-gop-congressman-reacts-after-trump-called-loser-on-cnn-for-posting-pic-of-him-as-speaker\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mediaite<\/a><span>):<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span>Former Republican congressman Denver Riggleman (R-VA) said Donald Trump \u201cwins the meme wars\u201d after CNN\u2019s Dana Bash called the former president a \u201closer\u201d on Thursday.<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>As the network covered the ongoing effort by Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy to convince holdout members of his own party to support his bid for speaker, Trump posted an image of himself as House speaker. On Truth Social, Trump shared an image of him in the speaker\u2019s chair appearing to mock President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.<\/p>\n<p>CNN\u2019s Jake Tapper reacted, \u201cAn image of him as speaker of the House rubbing his belly and sticking out his tongue is not helpful.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Yes Trump really posted this&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tvLa0FW3aX\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/tvLa0FW3aX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Yanky (@Yanky_Pollak) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Yanky_Pollak\/status\/1611137683253858304?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 5, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span>Just absolute perfection, despite Trump only getting one vote. Yet, his picture was on the candidate slate, which alone is enough to trigger the Left.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House speaker circus remained intense on day three, with Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) remaining incapable of cobbling together the votes needed to win. He\u2019s still short of 218, with some 20 Republican House members firmly entrenched in opposition to his speakership bid.\u00a0 The motion to adjourn barely limped passed the finish line, subjecting us &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1797213,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[5458,3653,4222,4672,3819,5654,3634],"class_list":["post-1797210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-bongino","tag-house","tag-nominated","tag-reacts","tag-report","tag-speaker","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797210","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1797210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1797213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1797210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1797210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1797210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}