WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Monday nominated the spouse of “God Bless the USA” singer Lee Greenwood to function the U.S. ambassador to Barbados and the Jap Caribbean.
Kimberly Greenwood was amongst an inventory of nominees the Trump administration despatched to the U.S. Senate for affirmation.
Later Monday, Kimberly Greenwood posted on Instagram an image along with her husband and Trump as she thanked the president for the nomination.
“Mr. President, thanks for believing in me and entrusting me with this extraordinary alternative to serve,” she wrote.
Her husband, Lee Greenwood, is one among Trump’s favourite singers, whose signature patriotic anthem has been his chosen walk-on tune at political occasions for years. Trump even went into enterprise with Lee Greenwood, promoting a $59.99 “God Bless the USA Bible,” with him.
In his personal Instagram submit praising his spouse and her nomination, Lee Greenwood mentioned his spouse had labored with Trump for 18 years whereas the president owned the Miss Universe Group and Kimberly Greenwood directed state pageants.
Kimberly Greenwood’s nomination, which should be confirmed by the Senate, requires her to serve concurrently as U.S. ambassador to Barbados and, with out further compensation, as ambassador to the Caribbean international locations of St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
Presidents on each side of the aisle have rewarded donors and key supporters with a big slice of sought-after ambassadorships.
Democratic President Joe Biden chosen outstanding Seattle enterprise chief and Democratic donor Roger Nyhus to serve in the identical function for which Trump has nominated Kimberly Greenwood.
Most political appointees from the donor-and-supporter class have little influence on overseas coverage. Often, they’ve been the supply of presidential complications.
Trump on Monday additionally nominated outgoing U.S. Rep. Wesley Hunt, R-Texas, to function his prime envoy to Riyadh.
Hunt is close to the top of his second time period representing his Houston-area district. He completed third within the March 2026 Texas Republican main for the U.S. Senate behind Ken Paxton and John Cornyn.
If confirmed, Hunt will head to Riyadh a troublesome second within the Center East because the U.S. and Israel’s conflict towards Iran continues endlessly and as combating between the Saudis and Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen intensifies.
Earlier than politics, Hunt was a U.S. Military officer who served as a diplomatic liaison in Saudi Arabia.
Hunt in a posting on X mentioned he understood “the strategic significance of the partnership between the US and Saudi Arabia and the profound duty of this place.”
The White Home on Monday additionally introduced Trump’s nominees for vacant ambassadorial roles in Haiti, Somalia, Djibouti and Suriname.
Throughout his first time period, Trump’s appointees included hotelier and $1 million inaugural contributor Gordon Sondland, who served as chief envoy to the European Union. Sondland supplied unflattering testimony about Trump throughout his first impeachment, which centered on allegations Trump sought assist from Ukrainian authorities to undermine Biden forward of the 2020 presidential election. Sondland was later fired by Trump.
Trump donor-turned-envoy Jeffrey Ross Gunter left locals in comparatively crime-free Reykjavik, Iceland, aghast over his request to rent armed bodyguards.
In Britain, Ambassador Robert “Woody” Johnson confronted accusations he tried to steer golf’s British Open towards a Trump resort in Scotland and made racist and sexist feedback.
