Donald Trump has tapped former acting attorney general Matthew Whitaker as U.S. ambassador to NATO, set to make him the nation’s representative to a bedrock Western alliance that the president-elect has repeatedly relished criticizing.

Whitaker has little to no experience in security or foreign policy, both of which are central to the NATO role.

President-elect Donald J. Trump has picked Matthew G. Whitaker, who briefly served as acting attorney general in the first Trump administration, to serve as ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in the next one.

President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Matthew Whitaker, who served as acting attorney general during Trump’s first term, as his pick to be US ambassador to NATO.

Former Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker has been nominated as the U.S. ambassador to NATO by President-elect Donald Trump.

Matthew Whitaker, who served briefly as interim attorney general during Trump's first term, got the nod as US ambassador to NATO.

U.S. relations with NATO were strained during Trump’s first term, as the Republican president criticized NATO and accused European members of spending

President-elect Donald Trump, who has long criticized NATO as overly reliant on American money, on Wednesday nominated loyalist Matthew Whitaker to the crucial post of ambassador to the alliance. Alliance chief Mark Rutte was quick to congratulate the Republican after his election victory and played up the positive impact he said Trump could have.

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte met President-elect Donald Trump in Florida as Europe waits apprehensively to see how the next administration will approach the war in Ukraine.