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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Wed Mar 8, 2017, 02:37 PM Mar 2017

Trump will name gay man as NATO ambassador according to White House official

Source: LGBTQ Nation


By Jeff Taylor · Wednesday, March 8, 2017

President Trump is set to appoint openly gay Republican, and former U.S. spokesman at the United Nations, Richard Grenell to become the president’s ambassador to NATO, according to a White House official.

The position would make Grenell the highest ranking LGBTQ member of the administration. Bloomberg broke the story and reached Grenell by phone on Wednesday, but he refused to comment.

The Fox News contributor and one time, short-lived national security spokesman for Mitt Romney, before he left that role due to pressure from social conservatives, previously had his name circulated as a possible candidate for Trump’s ambassador to the UN. That position went to South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley.

Grenell has been a Trump loyalist since the beginning, and backed his framing of NATO as “obsolete.”

Read more: http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2017/03/trump-set-name-richard-grenell-nato-post-white-house-official-says

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Trump will name gay man as NATO ambassador according to White House official (Original Post) DonViejo Mar 2017 OP
Wait until putin finds out... pangaia Mar 2017 #1
On DU home page, link is omitted, so it reads "Trump is openly gay". . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Mar 2017 #2
Grenell is a rightwing pig and a misogynist nt geek tragedy Mar 2017 #3
Calling NATO obsolete is as stupid as repealing ObamaCare. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Mar 2017 #4
Kakistocracy Renew Deal Mar 2017 #5
Most gay Republcans . . . Gamecock Lefty Mar 2017 #6
Wonderful atreides1 Mar 2017 #7
What this man does not understand though Doreen Mar 2017 #8
An yet this same administration J_William_Ryan Mar 2017 #9
he's doing this for the same reason he put Carson in charge of housing luvMIdog Mar 2017 #10
That's nice. A token gay. Vinca Mar 2017 #11
Just something about ''gay" and ''republican'' that just doesn't gel. Has Trump appointed any YOHABLO Mar 2017 #12
My neighbor often remarked of gay Republicans: RoBear Mar 2017 #13
anyone who was a trump loyalist since the beginning is obviously a total scumbag Kimchijeon Mar 2017 #14

atreides1

(16,082 posts)
7. Wonderful
Wed Mar 8, 2017, 03:23 PM
Mar 2017

A NATO ambassador who thinks the organization is obsolete...that's like a Education Secretary who doesn't believe in public education, or an EPA Director who believes the EPA should be completely gutted!!!

So, he's a gay man, who is a Republican! Which means he's a Republican first, and gay when it suits his agenda!!!

Doreen

(11,686 posts)
8. What this man does not understand though
Wed Mar 8, 2017, 03:33 PM
Mar 2017

is that he can not use the same bathroom ( he will have to use the one in the basement ), they can refuse to feed him in the cafeteria, If people are mean to him he can not complain, If he is given an overload of work that is more than he is supposed to do he can not complain, as long as he is allowed to have health insurance his companion can not be on his insurance, if someone at work beats him up he can not charge them ( along with anyone anywhere else ), there is a a chance he might be close to his bathroom because they might put his office in the basement, and he may not be allowed to talk to anyone at work or the public coming in.

Kind of sounds like "hidden figures" huh?

J_William_Ryan

(1,755 posts)
9. An yet this same administration
Wed Mar 8, 2017, 03:52 PM
Mar 2017

would seek to place on the Supreme Court a justice hostile to the rights and protected liberties of gay Americans.

 

YOHABLO

(7,358 posts)
12. Just something about ''gay" and ''republican'' that just doesn't gel. Has Trump appointed any
Wed Mar 8, 2017, 04:41 PM
Mar 2017

Democrats to anything? That would be NO!

Kimchijeon

(1,606 posts)
14. anyone who was a trump loyalist since the beginning is obviously a total scumbag
Wed Mar 8, 2017, 05:34 PM
Mar 2017

which goes without saying

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