Richard Grenell
American politician
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| 2025 | Grenell was tasked with leading the administration's response to the California Wildfires in his role as presidential envoy for special missions. |
| February 10 2025 | Trump appointed Grenell as interim Kennedy Center executive director. |
| February 1 2025 | Six American prisoners were released from Venezuela following Grenell's meeting with President Maduro. Trump claimed on Truth Social that the release was part of an arrangement involving future Venezuelan deportees. |
| January 31 2025 | Grenell traveled to Caracas, Venezuela to meet with Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro, reportedly to discuss Trump's deportation strategy for undocumented immigrants. |
| December 14 2024 | Donald Trump nominated Richard Grenell as his presidential envoy for special missions, a newly proposed position contingent on Grenell's confirmation. |
| 2023 | Honored with the Order of the Serbian Flag, a significant diplomatic recognition from Serbia. |
| 2021 | Received the Game Changer Award from the Log Cabin Republicans, recognizing his contributions to the LGBTQ+ conservative community. |
| July 15 2021 | Announced on The Sean Hannity Show that he would not run as a replacement candidate in the California gubernatorial recall election. |
| January 20 2021 | Grenell's tenure as special envoy ended with the conclusion of the Trump presidency. |
| 2020 | Received the United States National Security Medal, recognizing his contributions to national security. |
| November 11 2020 | Mistakenly tweeted Veterans Day well wishes to William Calley after being tricked by a journalist, later acknowledging he was duped. |
| November 5 2020 | Appeared as a speaker at a Trump campaign press conference in Las Vegas, pushing efforts to overturn the presidential election results and making unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud. |
| September 2020 | Grenell traveled to Kosovo and received the Presidential Medal of Merits from President Thaçi. |
| September 4 2020 | Serbian president Aleksandar Vučić and Kosovo prime minister Avdullah Hoti signed economic agreements in the Oval Office, with Grenell playing a key diplomatic role in the ceremony. |
| September 3 2020 | Grenell organized and co-hosted a summit at the White House with Robert C. O'Brien focused on Serbia and Kosovo negotiations. |
| August 2020 | Grenell was named Special Advisor for National Security and Foreign Policy by the American Center for Law and Justice. In the same month, he became a senior advisor to the Republican National Committee, focusing on LGBT voter outreach. |
| June 2020 | Appointed as a senior fellow at Carnegie Mellon University's Institute for Politics and Strategy for a one-year, non-teaching position, working on projects about worldwide homosexuality decriminalization and European political changes. |
| June 1 2020 | Formally resigned as U.S. ambassador to Germany. |
| May 26 2020 | Grenell's tenure as Acting Director of National Intelligence ended with the installation of John Ratcliffe. Trump gave Grenell his physical Cabinet chair upon resignation. |
| May 25 2020 | Confirmed his resignation as ambassador after John Ratcliffe's confirmation as DNI. |
| May 19 2020 | Grenell declassified an email sent by Obama's national security advisor Susan Rice to herself. |
| May 15 2020 | Grenell announced organizational changes to the National Counterterrorism Center and declared that ODNI would lead election security threat briefings for 2020 presidential candidates. |
| May 12 2020 | Grenell declassified names of Obama administration officials who unmasked Michael Flynn. |
| May 8 2020 | Announced a reorganization of ODNI, including a consolidated cyber office. |
| May 8 2020 | Grenell announced a reorganization of ODNI, creating a consolidated cyber office. |
| April 2020 | Grenell discussed potential policies to reduce intelligence-sharing with countries that criminalize homosexuality. |
| April 29 2020 | Ordered intelligence agencies to review their policies on handling and sharing information about U.S. citizens. |
| April 15 2020 | Grenell continued declassifying footnotes in the FISA abuse report and helped release 57 transcripts of Russia probe interviews. |
| April 2 2020 | Grenell began declassifying footnotes in a DOJ Inspector General report on FISA abuse. |
| February 28 2020 | Trump announced the nomination of John Ratcliffe as Director of National Intelligence, allowing Grenell to continue as Acting Director. |
| February 21 2020 | Kash Patel was named as a senior advisor to Grenell at ODNI. |
| February 20 2020 | Trump appointed Grenell as Acting Director of National Intelligence, replacing Joseph Maguire. Maguire and his deputy Andrew Hallman resigned from the Office of the Director for National Intelligence (ODNI). |
| February 13 2020 | Shelby Pierson advised House Intelligence Committee about Russian election interference, which prompted President Trump's concern about potential weaponization of the information. |
| January 20 2020 | Grenell facilitated negotiations between Serbia and Kosovo, resulting in an agreement to restore flights between their capitals for the first time in over two decades. |
| October 2019 | Richard Grenell was named special envoy for Serbia and Kosovo peace negotiations by President Trump, continuing to serve part-time after resigning as ambassador. |
| February 2019 | Announced as leader of the Trump administration's effort to promote decriminalization of homosexuality globally. |
| December 2018 | Wrote to Der Spiegel complaining about anti-American institutional bias and requesting an independent investigation. |
| November 2018 | Appeared on Fox News's Tucker Carlson Tonight and criticized Angela Merkel's immigration policies. |
| June 2018 | Grenell told Breitbart News he wants to empower conservatives throughout Europe, causing diplomatic controversy. |
| May 8 2018 | Grenell presented his credentials to the president of Germany. |
| May 8 2018 | Presented credentials to German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, officially beginning his ambassadorship. |
| May 3 2018 | Grenell was sworn in as ambassador by Vice President Mike Pence, becoming the highest-ranking openly gay U.S. ambassador. |
| April 26 2018 | Confirmed by the U.S. Senate as ambassador to Germany with a vote of 56 to 42. |
| September 2017 | Nominated by President Trump as the U.S. ambassador to Germany. |
| 2016 | Publicly criticized Donald Trump during Republican primaries, calling him 'unserious', 'reckless', and 'dangerous', but later deleted negative tweets and began praising Trump after he became the Republican nominee. |
| 2016 | Accepted over $100,000 from the Magyar Foundation of North America to provide public relations support for the Hungarian government, without disclosing the payment under FARA. |
| 2013 | Signed an amicus curiae brief to the Supreme Court supporting same-sex marriage during the Hollingsworth v. Perry case. |
| September 2013 | Grenell announced he had successfully achieved remission from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. |
| June 2013 | Richard Grenell publicly revealed his diagnosis of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and began chemotherapy treatment. |
| 2012 | Serves as a foreign policy spokesperson for Mitt Romney during his presidential campaign. |
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