Watch: Trump on US Effort to Globally Decriminalize Homosexuality: 'I Don't Know Which Report You're Talking About'

President Donald Trump was asked Wednesday about the United States' effort to decriminalize homosexuality around the globe but his response was confounding.

Headed by U.S. Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell, who is openly gay, NBC News reported that the Trump administration will launch a global effort to end the criminalization of homosexuality in a dozen nations where it is currently illegal to be gay. The move is in part with denouncing Iran over its human rights record.

A reporter asked Trump about the initiative and why he's moving forward with it.

"Say it?" the president said, asking the reporter to repeat the question.

"Your push to decriminalize homosexuality across the world," she said.

"I don't know which report you're talking about. We have many reports. Anyone else?"

The NBC News report goes on to say that Grenell will fly in LGBTQ activists from around Europe for a strategy dinner, and plans to focus on the Middle East, Africa and the Caribbean.

"It is concerning that, in the 21st century, some 70 countries continue to have laws that criminalize LGBTI status or conduct," said a U.S. official involved in organizing the event.

The report adds:

Narrowly focused on criminalization, rather than broader LGBT issues like same-sex marriage, the campaign was conceived partly in response to the recently reported execution by hanging of a young gay man in Iran, the Trump administration's top geopolitical foe.

Grenell, as Trump's envoy to Germany, has been an outspoken Iran critic and has aggressively pressed European nations to abandon the 2015 nuclear deal and re-impose sanctions. But while the Trump administration has had some success in pressuring Iran through stepped-up U.S. penalties, efforts to bring the Europeans along have thus far largely fallen flat.

Click here to read the full report and watch Trump answering the question below.