Former Arizona television news anchor and long-time Donald Trump ally Kari Lake has been selected by the 47th U.S. president to serve as the next American ambassador to the Caribbean nation of Jamaica, multiple administration sources confirm.
If Lake’s nomination receives the required confirmation from the U.S. Senate, she will step into a post that has been vacant since January 2025, when the tenure of previous ambassador Nick Perry concluded.
Lake first rose to national prominence as one of the most high-profile backers of Trump’s unsubstantiated claims that he was wrongfully defeated in the 2020 presidential election by then-candidate Joe Biden. She carried that loyalist reputation into her own 2022 bid for Arizona governor, a race that ended in a narrow defeat to Democratic opponent Katie Hobbs.
Earlier this year, in March 2025, Lake joined the Trump administration in a domestic advisory role, taking a position as a special advisor to the U.S. Agency for Global Media, the federal body that oversees U.S. government-run international media outlets. Her nomination to the Jamaica ambassadorship marks the highest-profile political appointment of her career to date.