Donald Trump on Tuesday announced that he’d tapped former NFL star turned failed GOP Senate candidate Herschel Walker to become the next U.S. ambassador to the Bahamas. Critics on social media were stunned by the move, with many slamming the overall staffing of the president-elect’s second term as a “shit show.”

The president-elect tapped the former football star for the job two years after a failed run for a Senate seat in Georgia.

On Tuesday (Dec. 17), President-elect Donald Trump once again shocked the country with another one of his appointments. He officially named former NFL star Herschel Walker as the U.S. ambassador to the Bahamas. Walker ran for a Georgia Senate seat in 2022 ...

President-elect Donald Trump has nominated former NFL star and one-time Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker as “Ambassador to the Bahamas” after previously claiming during his campaign trail that he would put his longtime friend and ally in charge of the “Missile Defense Shield.

Walkers' appointment as ambassador to the Bahamas was announced by president-elect Trump on social media on Tuesday night.

President-elect Donald Trump says he'll nominate former Senate candidate Herschel Walker as the U.S. ambassador to the Bahamas.

President-elect Donald Trump has a new game plan for Herschel Walker, naming the former football star and Republican Senate candidate as ambassador to the Bahamas.

In his post on Truth Social, Trump praised Walker's extensive background in sports and Walker's previous role in his first administration

Herschel Walker, famed running back turned unsuccessful Republican Senate candidate, is not done with politics. On Tuesday, President-elect Donald Trump nominated Walker as the next U.S. ambassador to the Bahamas.

The former NFL player, who lost his Senate race to Raphael Warnock in Georgia in 2022, has no clear ties to the Bahamas and little to no diplomatic experience.

Herschel Walker, the former football star who unsuccessfully ran for Senate in Georgia in 2022, will be nominated to serve as ambassador to the Bahamas.

President-elect Donald Trump backed the Heisman Trophy winner’s failed 2022 Senate campaign in Georgia, which was plagued by scandals.