{"id":469017,"date":"2026-10-17T18:38:23","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T18:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/469017\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T18:38:23","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T18:38:23","slug":"texas-governor-greg-abbott-has-beer-summit-with-tmz-and-its-not-pretty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/469017\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Governor Greg Abbott Has Beer Summit with TMZ, and It’s Not Pretty"},"content":{"rendered":"

Texas Governor Greg Abbott
\n Self-Admitted TMZ ‘Wuss’ Can Barely Stomach Gov’s Challenge<\/p>\n

\n Published
\n October 17, 2026
\n 9:23 AM PDT
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\n Updated
\n October 17, 2026
\n 11:02 AM PDT\n <\/p>\n

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Texas Governor Greg Abbott<\/a> has overcome a lot in his life — suffering a catastrophic injury as a young adult — so he was more than amused listening to our TMZ DC guy agonizing over whether to accept a beer because of his Gen Z stomach issues.<\/p>\n

Jacob<\/a> made it to the Governor’s mansion in Austin Friday night, and Abbott was more than hospitable, offering our TMZ DC Managing Editor a brewski. Jacob, among many other things, is gluten-free, so he resisted.<\/p>\n

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BTW … the same thing happened in Detroit a few days earlier with Michigan senatorial candidate Abdul El-Sayed<\/a> … same stomach excuses<\/a> — it’s hilarious.<\/p>\n

Back to Abbott — now that there’s an opening<\/a> for White House Press Secretary, the Governor says he thinks he’s got the perfect replacement. HINT: Abbott’s looking at him.<\/p>\n

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In the end, Jacob chugs it down and leaves satisfied.<\/p>\n

PS … Jacob called Harvey<\/a> 2 hours later to complain that his stomach felt volcanic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas Governor Greg Abbott Self-Admitted TMZ ‘Wuss’ Can Barely Stomach Gov’s Challenge Published October 17, 2026 9:23 AM…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":469018,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-469017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}