Top presidential advisor warns against confirming mayor

Mayor Amer Ghalib is up against a powerful advisor to President Trump who is opposed to his nomination to be the next ambassador to Kuwait. File photo

By Charles Sercombe
Mayor Amer Ghalib has one key influential advisor to President Trump who is opposed to his nomination to be ambassador to Kuwait.
And that’s right-wing conservative Laura Loomer, who reportedly has unique access to Trump, and was previously successful in convincing him to fire several top aides, suspend Palestinian visitor visas and remove a surgeon general nominee.
She recently posted on social media that Ghalib “needs to be stopped by US Senators ahead of his Senate confirmation hearing.”
She also urged the public to “call your Senators and tell them to oppose the nomination of radical Muslim Amer Ghalib …”
Loomer also characterized Hamtramck as “one of the most radical Islamic cities in America.”
It didn’t stop there, as Loomer went on to criticize Ghalib for being anti-LGBTQ, allowing animal slaughtering at homes and for being critical of Israel and supporting Hamas.
“Amer Ghalib’s ambassadorship should be revoked. We can’t allow Islamification of the West to be supported from within the White House,” Loomer added.
Mayor Ghalib told The Review that he is aware of critics and “of all the emails/messages about me, sent by local residents, officials and reporters, to some senators and to Laura Loomer.”
Ghalib continued: “I understand the desperate attempts of those locals to disqualify me, because they have failed to defeat me in elections, through their games, or in courts, or on the ground. Their only hope is to defeat me through spreading hate speech, misinformation, and deception, which is unethical and shameful behavior.”
Ghalib said that, if he does not get confirmed, there is an “alternative” plan.
“In case I don’t get confirmed, my political career will never end the way my opponents wish for,” Ghalib said.
“Worst-case scenario is to come back and run for a higher public office such as Congress or something else, which will give me more flexibility and more freedom to express my political views. However, I trust that President Trump will continue to be loyal and supportive.”
Seemingly adding fuel to the fire, President Trump was recently quoted as saying that people from other countries should not be allowed to serve in U.S. government.
Ghalib is a Muslim immigrant from Yemen, which Trump has re-imposed a travel ban on.
Trump particularly took aim at U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), a Muslim immigrant from Somalia.
Immigrants like Omar, Trump said, “come from a place with nothing… and then they tell us how to run our country.”
Trump’s own grandfather, Friedrich, immigrated to the U.S. in October of 1885 at the age of 16, fleeing Germany to escape their then-compulsory three-year military service; Germans were welcomed at that time, according to History.com.
Trump nominated Ghalib to be ambassador to Kuwait, apparently in return for Ghalib’s support of him to again become president in the 2024 election.
Ghalib said he had previously supported Democrats, but this time backed Trump because of his campaign promise to end the wars in Ukraine and in Gaza, among other reasons.
Since being in office, those wars have only worsened, and Trump has even encouraged Israel to “finish the job” in clearing out Gaza of Palestinians.
Posted Sept. 26, 2025