{"id":227303,"date":"2025-10-20T16:49:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T16:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/227303\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T16:49:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T16:49:07","slug":"finnish-president-alexander-stubb-on-golf-icebreakers-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/227303\/","title":{"rendered":"Finnish President Alexander Stubb on golf, icebreakers, Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In recent coverage from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/world\/icebreakers-and-golf-spark-trump-and-finnish-leaders-unlikely-friendship\/ar-AA1OfVj4?ocid=BingNewsSerp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BBC<\/a>, the news organization comments on ongoing talks between U.S. President Donald Trump and \u201cunlikely spokesman for Europe,\u201d Finnish President Alexander Stubb. Stubb, a 1993 Furman University political science alumnus, is dubbed by many media outlets as a \u201cTrump Whisperer\u201d and confidant. Their relationship began in March this year at a Mar-a-Lago golf tournament. Stubb, who originally came to Furman on a golf scholarship, and Trump routinely discuss the war in Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, Vladimir Putin, European sentiment, and lately, a deal to buy 11 Finnish icebreaker ships, four of them to be built in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Furman\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/people\/brent-nelsen\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brent Nelsen<\/a>, the Jane Fishburne Hipp Professor of Politics and International Affairs and friend of Stubb\u2019s, talks about the importance of the leaders\u2019 first meeting on the golf course. \u201cTrump is always impressed with superior talent,\u201d Nelsen tells the BBC. \u201cSomebody who has some gift that really makes him stand out.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In recent coverage from the BBC, the news organization comments on ongoing talks between U.S. President Donald Trump&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227304,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-227303","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}