You believe media reports, is the name of the next US Ambassador in Berlin, Richard Grenell. The 50-year-old communications professional, although not a career Diplomat, but has experience. And a difficult Mission.
Richard Grenell came in December 2016 in the Trump Tower in New York
It is an almost impossible Mission: The new Ambassador of the United States of America must not represent in Germany only his country, but also a President in this country is extremely unpopular. Who will choose the US President, Donald Trump for this “mission impossible”?
The signs are condensed, that it is the next US Ambassador to the 50-year-old communications consultant Richard Grenell. Time is of the essence: half a year, the Executive chair of the U.S. Embassy near the Brandenburg vacant.
Although the official nomination by U.S. President Trump and the confirmation by the Senate. And also on the list of the US Ambassador (last update: 21. July 2017) is given, the place in Germany as “vacant”.
But since a few days, corresponding to the gossip circles in the U.S. media, citing employees of the White house, who want to remain anonymous. Not the least of Grenell’s even heated discussions as he was at 12. July, with the words, “Thank you, Mr President” a photo on Twitter published showing him with Trump in the Oval Office.
The 50-Year-old is on trump’s list of candidates is not new. Grenell has – contrary to some of the other occupations in the Trump Administration already has diplomatic experience. Under President George W. Bush, he was for seven years speaker of the U.S. Delegation at the United Nations. There, he represented in meetings of the security Council repeated the Ambassador – according to its own information with full voting rights.
Richard Grenell in the year 2006 with the US Ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton (right)
His work at the United Nations coincided with a period in which the United States aligned pursued a military and foreign policy. They fought a war in Iran and Afghanistan, dealing with the nuclear programs of North Korea and Iran on the Agenda as well as the alleged Syrian interference in Lebanese politics.
That Grenell “at least some Basis” in diplomacy, is seen in Berlin, says Jan Techau, Director of the “Richard C. Holbrooke Forum for the Study of Diplomacy and Governance” at the research and cultural Institute, “American Academy” in Berlin.
Year Long Media Experience
Grenell advised in his career, several Republican politicians. After his work for the Bush administration, Harvard founded a graduate company of his own. As he writes on his website, his Clients from the USA and Europe as well as countries such as China, Australia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Somalia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He regularly performs as a foreign policy expert in the US media, including the conservative channel Fox News.
The skills as a Communicator to be Grenell’s use of his Position as Ambassador in Germany, says Amerikaeperte Jan Techau. Grenell had to learn, with the German media landscape. “The German media work differently than American. It is a different culture,” says the expert.
Just like Trump is also part of Grenell to the frenetic users of the Twitter network. In the past seven and a half years, he published around 71.400 Tweets – an average of 25 per day. Currently writes Grenell there, in the light of his own healing some years ago, a lot of on the subject of cancer. Twitter is for him, but also the Medium of choice, when he comments on political events, or via media, and people.
The U.S. Embassy in Germany at the Brandenburg gate: the new workplace for Grenell? (Archive image)
His vicious Tweets Grenell have already been once to the Verhängnls. When he was appointed in 2012 to the foreign and security policy spokesman for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, led the reports about his Tweets that he had to delete 800 “hurtful,” as he called it, messages. After only two weeks he gave up his Post. A role of criticism and hostility, the sexual speaker from its own party ranks, contrary to beat him as the first openly living as a homosexual.
Grenell supported Trump in the election campaign and defended him against the allegedly false reporting of the media on the Russia-affair.
Recently, he agreed to the President with a view on North Korea a “strong foreign policy”. In March 2016, he wrote publicly to a Twitter user: “If you think that Trump has a clue of foreign policy issues, then you’re stupid.” This Tweet is now no longer available.