President Trump says he’s now the chairman of the Kennedy Center following a vote by its board after, in an unprecedented move, he named himself to the position. “It is a Great Honor

Grenell’s passionate allegiance to the Republican cause eventually caught the attention of George W. Bush, who named him a US State Department spokesperson for the United Nations in 2001. In this role, Grenell advised four different US ambassadors until the end of his tenure in 2008.