Hoekstra’s job performance also came up during Trump’s meeting with Prime Minister Mark Carney at the White House earlier this month.

“I want to just acknowledge our great ambassador,” Trump said at one point in the Oval Office, gesturing in Hoekstra’s direction.

“Is he doing a good job? … Otherwise, I’ll get him out of there.”

So that seems simple enough.

How did I know that name? Ohhh.

Hoekstra was the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee from 2004 to 2007.

Yeah. Now I remember.

False claims about WMDs in Iraq

Hoekstra was a proponent of the claim that the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction (WMDs), and held onto this belief even after no WMDs were found in the wake of the Iraq invasion.

In 2006, Hoekstra made headlines by announcing at a press conference in the Capitol that weapons of mass destruction had been located in Iraq in the form of 500 chemical weapons. However, the weapons in question were defunct munitions, manufactured prior to the 1991 Gulf War and which had been scattered throughout Iraq.

Right. That fuckin’ guy. Catapult him into the sun, please.