Trump Team for the Balkans/ US Ambassador to Belgrade will be a Serb?

For the project, which failed in 2012, it is now ready to begin construction. This, which was accomplished 13 years later, was initiated mainly by the closest Trump adviser Richard “Ric” Green, who was the president's special envoy for the Balkans during his first term, and whom the president now made “his special mission envoy”.

Grenelli has close, almost friendly relations with Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and his Foreign Minister Marko Djuric, who has previously been Serbia's ambassador to Washington. Grenelli took a medal from Vucic in 2023 for his balanced “x1> to the newest state of Europe, the Republic of Kosovo, which Serbia still 26 years after the end of the war in Kosovo claims its own, the analyst recalls.

March 2024 between the Serbian government, Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kouchner, and Arab investors were reached the Trump Toweer Belgrade agreement, which according to the New York Times costs half a billion dollars. At the same time, Politico announced last week that Trump is taking into consideration the appointment of the former Democrat governor of Illinois as US ambassador to Belgrade. Blagojevich, son of Serbian immigrants, was removed from office in 2009 and was sentenced to 14 years in prison for corruption three years later.

Trump cut Blagojevic's sentence during his first term, he was later released prematurely in 2020. That makes him an ideal candidate for Trump, says DW prof. Daniel Serwer, who describes him as a politician willing to do whatever Trump wants in order to rehabilitate”.