It’s a waiting game for the mayor

Mayor Amer Ghalib poses with President Trump and over a dozen other presidential nominees waiting for confirmation by the U.S. Senate. Photo Facebook

By Charles Sercombe
Hamtramck Mayor Amer Ghalib will have to wait for the U.S. Senate to come back from their summer break before his hearing is scheduled to confirm his ambassadorship to Kuwait.
President Trump nominated Ghalib to be the next ambassador to Kuwait as a reward for Ghalib’s endorsement of him for president, and for influencing other Arab and Muslim Americans to abandon the Democratic Party and get behind Trump.
On his Facebook page, Ghalib posted a photo of himself and other would-be appointees posing with Trump in the oval office. This is what he had to say about the delay in his confirmation hearing:
“The senate went into recess for a month before confirming this wonderful team.
“That’s OK Mr. President. Thank you for your unwavering support. I’m still the Mayor of my city, and despite of the disruption this may cause, but I still have some unfinished city business to take care of while waiting. This waiting time will never be wasted or useless. We will continue to serve at home or abroad, with or without a title! …
“Despite the confusion this wait causes, but this gives me, as mayor of my city, some time to oversee finishing some issues that are stranded in the city. We will not let our waiting time go to waste and we will continue to serve our community and country from within or abroad, formally or unofficially.
“Thank you President Trump for his unwavering support and confidence in us to represent and serve this great country.”
In another matter regarding President Trump, Ghalib said he had a conversation with administration officials where they discussed “topics of community concern, and arrangements for important upcoming steps.”

Here’s what he had to say about that discussion on his Facebook page:
“Issues of concern to Yemeni immigrants were among the discussion. We agreed to continue communicating and arranging next steps as soon as possible, with specialists involved, on the issues discussed. I will go into details in due time.
“I’ve just received a call from senior officials in the White House, and we discussed matters of mutual concern for almost 30 minutes.
“The issues that concern our community, especially the Yemeni immigrants, were in the core of our discussion. More work, communication, and collaboration to resolve these issues will continue.”
There was no mention from the mayor about discussing other issues regarding the city.
And finally, on Monday, Ghalib reminisced about his primary election victory in 2021.
“On this day in 2021, I won the primary elections, and the walls of the empire of corruption began to crack!
“Four years ago, I won the primary, and the walls of the corruption empire started to collapse!”
Former Mayor Karen Majewski asked Ghalib to explain what corruption he is talking about, but Ghalib apparently did not respond.
Ghalib has repeatedly claimed that former administrations were corrupt.
As to corruption — some current members of the city council are now under investigation for violating election law, and two councilmembers for not actually being residents of the city.
Posted Aug. 15, 2025