“Now, the greatest president we have ever seen has bestowed upon me the duty to tell this story near and far.”<\/p>\n
The new role for Mr Adams took effect on March 17, according to a recently updated biography<\/a> on the US Department of State website, which describes him as a “thought leader and educator”.<\/p>\n The profile makes little mention of Mr Adams’s Australian background, noting only that he was born and raised in the country and studied at the University of Sydney.<\/p>\n What it leaves out is Mr Adams’s first tilt at a political career.<\/p>\n Youngest-ever deputy mayor<\/p>\n Mr Adams once aspired to become the prime minister of Australia, according to a feature by the Washington Post in 2024<\/a>.<\/p>\n He made his start in local politics.<\/p>\n Representing the Liberal Party in 2004, Mr Adams was elected to represent the now-defunct Ashfield council’s north ward.<\/p>\n A little over a year later, he was elected as deputy mayor, becoming the youngest ever in Australia at the age of 21.<\/p>\n Nick Adams has moved to the US since quitting Australian politics. (Instagram: Nick Adams)<\/p>\n But headlines during his local government career had a different focus.<\/p>\n Mr Adams established himself as a hardline conservative who promoted nationalistic and anti-multicultural values.<\/p>\n He appeared on SBS’s Insight program in 2006 and claimed multiculturalism divided and segregated society, prompting other Ashfield councillors to publicly distance themselves<\/a> from him.\u00a0<\/p>\n Rae Jones, the mayor at the time, said it was a shame Mr Adams had spoken in a “narrow and exclusive tradition”.\u00a0<\/p>\n Marc Rerceretnam, a former Ashfield councillor, told Crikey<\/a> Mr Adams frequently “racially” attacked him.<\/p>\n A series of harebrained plans<\/p>\n Mr Adams also dedicated a chunk of his time at Ashfield council to floating unconventional ideas.<\/p>\n In 2005, an outbreak of bird flu was spreading across the globe, carried by migratory birds.<\/p>\n Nick Adams proposed eradicating pigeons from his local government area in 2005. (ABC News: Gabriela Rahardja)<\/p>\n While the virus was yet to reach Australian shores, Mr Adams had an idea<\/a> for action if it did: banish pigeons.<\/p>\n “Ashfield should be inhospitable to pigeons. Avian influenza does not respect borders,” he said, putting forward a council motion.<\/p>\n Neither do pigeons, though, as his colleagues pointed out.<\/p>\n “The mind boggles when I think of Ashfield pigeons flying to the border of Ashfield and stopping directly at the border, and saying, ‘Oh no, that’s Canterbury, I can’t go into there,’ and flying back in again,” Mr Rerceretnam remarked at the time, drawing rolling laughter from the room.<\/p>\n “I mean, what exactly is this motion trying to do?”<\/p>\n It was a question Mr Adams found difficult to answer.<\/p>\n “I’m not an expert, I’m not an accountant, I’m certainly not a pest controller. Don’t ask me about procedure. What I would like to see is no pigeons in our area,” he said.<\/p>\n The motion was not passed, but that didn’t discourage Mr Adams.<\/p>\n Loading Instagram content<\/p>\n In 2008, Mr Adams proposed DNA testing dog faeces<\/a> to track down and fine owners who failed to pick up their pets’ poo.<\/p>\n Israel was trialling a similar program at the time that rewarded pet owners for cleaning their pets’ messes, and Mr Adams was keen to import the idea to Ashfield.<\/p>\n If introduced, dogs would be given a mouth swab when microchipped, and their DNA would be stored on a database.<\/p>\n Rangers would collect droppings in public areas and send samples for testing to find matches.<\/p>\n Like his bird flu pitch, however, this idea never made it off the ground.<\/p>\n “If he didn’t have a stunt, he wouldn’t turn up to meetings,” said former council member Mark Drury, of Mr Adams’s time in government in 2024<\/a>.<\/p>\n Other proposals by Mr Adams included banning Germaine Greer<\/a> from entering the local government area, and making Halloween a public holiday \u2014 a saga that featured on the ABC’s Media Watch<\/a>.<\/p>\n Formal condemnation and suspension<\/p>\n As his stint in politics drew on, the young politician attracted more serious criticism, too.<\/p>\n In 2006, he was formally condemned by his colleagues for “racking up thousands of dollars” in phone calls and cab charges for personal benefit, according to a report by local paper Inner-West Weekly<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Liberal Party also suspended Mr Adams for six months<\/a> in 2009, after he verbally abused a journalist reporting on his council-meeting absences.\u00a0<\/p>\n He resigned from local government in 2012.<\/p>\n Mr Adams later reportedly claimed to have resigned from the party before the suspension took place.<\/p>\n A false start in the US<\/p>\n In recent years, Mr Adams has re-emerged \u2014 this time in the US political sphere.<\/p>\n Through his platform as a conservative influencer and MAGA commentator, he has ingratiated himself in Mr Trump’s circle.<\/p>\n Nick Adams with US President Donald Trump in 2016. 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