Will Bill Clinton be the next U.S. ambassador to Ireland? Rumors are heating up that Bubba may covet the diplomatic spot as his wife, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, laughed off the speculation.


The rumors started after Bill Clinton, who is of Irish ancestry, joked late last month about becoming the leader of Ireland.

“Because of my Irish heritage, if I bought a house here I could run for president of Ireland,” Bubba said during an event in Limerick, Cindy Adams of the New York Post’s Page Six reported.
The rumors gained traction when Hillary Clinton was asked about the possibility of her husband being nominated as the next U.S. ambassador to Ireland during a visit to the country on Thursday.

“I cannot comment on what President Obama might do in the second term, it’s his decision,” Clinton said, according to the Christian Science Monitor. “But I would think that my husband will be here many times in the future and doing the work that he has been doing without having the title of ambassador.”

Bill Clinton served two terms in the White House from 1993 to 2000. He started the influential nonprofit the Clinton Global Initiative in 2005, which focuses on a number of world issues, including climate change, poverty in Africa, childhood obesity and economic opportunities.

The former president is a big hit in Ireland, and as president, Clinton helped broken the Northern Ireland peace ag.