AMBASSADOR/FAKE NEWS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The new US ambassador to the Netherlands has been caught out on Dutch television after a journalist quizzed him about comments he had made about Islamic extremism in the country.
Pete Hoekstra denied he had ever said there were ‘no-go zones’ in the Netherlands, calling it ‘fake news’.
But the Dutch journalist showed him a clip of the comments from 2015.
The Trump appointee then appeared to deny the ‘fake news’ term he had used earlier in the interview.
The exchange left Wouter Zwart, US correspondent for Dutch broadcaster NOS, visibly confused in the short clip that has been widely shared on social media.”
-BBC News, “Trump’s ambassador to Netherlands in ‘fake news’ blunder,” BBC News, Dec. 22, 2017