Token Conservative Homo Appointed By Trump To Be Ambassador To Germany

President Donald Trump has picked Richard Grenell to serve as ambassador to Germany.

According to CNN, the Trump administration has yet to announce the nomination, but Trump and Grenell met last week at the Oval Office. “Thank you, Mr, President,” Grenell captioned a photo of the pair on Twitter.

Grenell served as a US spokesman at the United Nations during former President George W. Bush's administration. He currently appears on Fox News Channel as a foreign affairs commentator and was one of the president's earliest foreign policy supporters.

Grenell, 50, is Trump's first openly gay ambassador nominee.

“I think it's natural the president would want to put him in a position he considers important,” an administration official who spoke on condition of anonymity said. “In the event this comes to be, it seems a very logical appointment.”

The official added that Grenell's “very long service at the United Nations and during the Bush administration and the contacts he established through that are very strongly in his favor.”

In 2000, Grenell, a registered Republican, worked on Arizona Senator John McCain's unsuccessful presidential campaign. He's also a cancer survivor, beating a diagnosis of non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma in 2013.

On the surface Grenell seems a good candidate, but his appointment is nothing more than a talking point/token homo for conservatives who want you to believe this administration is inclusive.

Grenell is far more qualified to have been our countries representative at the UN than Nikki Haley yet he's being chosen instead to a simple ambassadorship to Germany.

Grenell himself, a staunch Republican, did sign his support for marriage equality back in 2013, but until that time (and even up to this date), he has served and supported politicians and political campaigns and agendas that are decidedly anti-gay.

Grenell is also a graduate of Evangel University a hyper conservative evangelical college with a poor track record for being LGBT inclusive.

There have been more than one gay student that has reported the college staff making it a requirement that gay students undergo reparative therapy as a condition to their attendance.

Grenell has stated, in his youth he has undergone reparative therapy.

Grenell also supports religious exemptions for people providing goods and services to deny serving gay people and though he is personally opposed to reparative therapy, he doesn't believe it should be made illegal for parents to torture and abuse their gay children based on their religious beliefs.

Though unmarried, Grenell has a partner of 15 years that he lives with.