{"id":8515,"date":"2025-12-22T04:49:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T04:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/2025\/12\/22\/trump-names-louisiana-governor-jeff-landry-as-greenland-special-envoy-nbc-news\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T04:49:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T04:49:05","slug":"trump-names-louisiana-governor-jeff-landry-as-greenland-special-envoy-nbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/2025\/12\/22\/trump-names-louisiana-governor-jeff-landry-as-greenland-special-envoy-nbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump names Louisiana governor Jeff Landry as Greenland special envoy &#8211; NBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p id=\"anchor-ba1361\">U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday announced he is appointing Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry as the special envoy to Greenland.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-644979\">\u201cJeff understands how essential Greenland is to our National Security, and will strongly advance our Country\u2019s Interests for the Safety, Security, and Survival of our Allies, and indeed, the World,\u201d Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-375e4b\">The White House and representatives for Landry did not immediately respond to requests for comment. <\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-ae0753\">It was not immediately clear whether Landry, who became governor in January 2024, would need to step down from his gubernatorial role.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-activity-map=\"expanded-byline-article-bottom\">\n<div data-testid=\"byline-thumbnail\"><picture data-testid=\"picture\" data-flavor=\"focal\" data-original-height=\"48\" data-original-width=\"48\"><source media=\"(min-width: 320px)\" ><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_focal-60x60,f_auto,q_auto:best\/newscms\/2024_21\/3649017\/reuters-live-blog-byline-image_1.png\" alt height=\"48\" width=\"48\"><\/picture><\/div>\n<p><span data-testid=\"byline-name\">Reuters<\/span><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Reuters<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday announced he is appointing Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry as the special envoy to Greenland. \u201cJeff understands how essential Greenland is to our National Security, and will strongly advance our Country\u2019s Interests for the Safety, Security, and Survival of our Allies, and indeed, the World,\u201d Trump wrote in a post [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8516,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}