On February 19, 2019, the administration took a more pro-LGBT approach by announcing a new campaign to decriminalize homosexuality worldwide, to be led by Richard Grenell, the openly gay U.S. Ambassador to Germany. On that day, Grenell hosted a meeting in Berlin with 11 activists from different European countries; it appears that no U.S. individuals or groups were invited. The next day, a reporter asked the president about the initiative, and he seemed unaware of it. (In the official White House transcript of that interview, Trump asked the reporter to repeat the question, and finally responded, "I don't know, uh, which report you're talking about. We have many reports.") Grenell, however, said the intent was to use U.S. economic aid as a bargaining chip to persuade other countries to change their laws, and to partner with European countries in this endeavor. "This is not a new policy; it's a new push," he said. On May 31, 2019, Trump tweeted that Americans should "stand in solidarity with the many LGBT people who live in dozens of countries worldwide that punish, imprison, or even execute" people for their sexual orientation. He referenced his administration's "global campaign to decriminalize homosexuality." It was the only time during his presidency that he tweeted the word "LGBT" (excepting, one year later, a retweet of his press secretary's praise of his "LGBT community" record) or "Pride" in an LGBT context. Despite his call for international solidarity, that same week, the Trump administration instructed U.S. embassies not to fly the Pride flag. When Grenell resigned his ambassadorship on June 1, 2020, he left no one obviously in charge of any "push" or "campaign." In August 2020, a senior advisor at the Council for Global Equality described Grenell's defunct campaign dismissively as "a series of self-promoting Twitter photos."