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.

Matthew Whitaker, who has been chosen by Donald Trump to be the U.S. ambassador to NATO, has not said much about the alliance or foreign policy.Whitaker, who was selected by the president-elect on Wednesday,

After a brief stint in Trump's first administration, the president-elect wants the conservative firebrand to become the next U.S. ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.