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From a war on pigeons in Ashfield to Trump’s alpha male in Malaysia

From a war on pigeons in Ashfield to Trump’s alpha male in Malaysia

Nick Adams, a former Sydney Liberal councillor, is prone to exaggeration an old colleague says. Donald Trump just made him a US ambassador.

Nick Adams, Donald Turmp’s pick to be US ambassador to Malaysia, is a self-described alpha-male conservative commentator. Nick Adams, Instagram

Paul KarpNSW political correspondent
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American children are brought up to believe that anyone, including them, can be president. We can now add to that dictum that in Donald Trump’s America, anyone can be appointed US ambassador to Malaysia.

Trump has just proved it by appointing Nicholas Adams, a self-described alpha-male conservative commentator and former deputy mayor of Ashfield council in Sydney, to that post.

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Paul KarpNSW political correspondentPaul Karp is The Australian Financial Review’s NSW political correspondent.

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