Former National Security Advisor Mike Waltz , and his assistant, Alex Wong?, get’s sent to New York and the United Nations, a place Trump has no use for….
This whole thing was a just a last minute ‘rush job’ …typical…. Trump….
(Donald Trump does NOT like to actually Fire people…)
Waltz WILLneed to get confirmed by the US Senate….
But?
He’s gonna go thru the wringer in during his confirmation session….
His job as National Security Advisor is ‘temporarily ‘ going to globe trotting Sec. of State Marco Rubio?
Hmmm?
National security adviser Mike Waltz is leaving his White House post, although soon after reports about his departure were published, President Trump announced he plans to nominate him to be ambassador to the United Nations.
It was not clear whether Alex Wong, Waltz’s deputy, would remain at the National Security Council, as of Thursday afternoon, sources said.
The president also said in a social media post that in the interim, Secretary of State Marco Rubio will serve as national security adviser. Waltz will need to be confirmed by the Senate for the ambassador role.
“I am pleased to announce that I will be nominating Mike Waltz to be the next United States Ambassador to the United Nations,” Mr. Trump wrote. “From his time in uniform on the battlefield, in Congress and, as my National Security Advisor, Mike Waltz has worked hard to put our Nation’s Interests first. I know he will do the same in his new role. In the interim, Secretary of State Marco Rubio will serve as National Security Advisor, while continuing his strong leadership at the State Department.”
Waltz said on X, “I’m deeply honored to continue my service to President Trump and our great nation.”
It was a last-minute decision to nominate Waltz to be U.N. ambassador, sources told CBS News. Mr. Trump decided Thursday morning, the sources said, but there had been previous discussions about moving Waltz out of the NSC.
Rubio and Waltz had a meeting Thursday to discuss the transition in roles, multiple sources told CBS News. It was unclear, even to some senior advisers at State Department and the White House, when exactly Rubio would take over as interim national security adviser.
Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau was not informed before the news broke that Waltz would be leaving the NSC, sources said, and the circle of people who knew Waltz would be departing was very small.
A number of factors led to the change. It was perceived at the White House that Waltz didn’t adequately vet NSC staff, sources said, in addition to the Signal saga and a lack of a good fit between Waltz and the senior team….
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It is unlikely that U.S. envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff will be tapped for the permanent national security adviser job, two sources said. Speculation among Mr. Trump’s allies on Thursday was that White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller might be considered, or possibly deputy assistant to the president and senior director for counterterrorism Seb Gorka, because they are so firmly behind Mr. Trump’s mission. Ric Grenell, special presidential envoy for special missions, said publicly that he didn’t want the post….
Vice President Vance said he supports President Trump’s Thursday decision to nominate national security adviser Mike Waltz to be the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
Waltz had been at the center of a controversy involving a group chat on the Signal app in which national security and defense officials shared key details of a military strike in Yemen. Waltz is said to have inadvertently invited Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor in chief of The Atlantic, to the chat.
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Trump’s next national security adviser will be his sixth
Even for a president known for cycling through staff, the national security adviser role is particularly prone to turnover.
The big picture: President Trump’s first national security adviser quickly resigned and later ended up in court. His next two clashed with him while in office and harshly criticized him afterwards. Now the fifth, Michael Waltz, is on his way out the door.
Driving the news: Waltz clashed with multiple key Trumpworld figures, and his internal standing was diminished after the “Signalgate” affair, Axios’ Marc Caputo and Barak Ravid report.
- Rather than firing him, as many expected, Trump nominated Waltz to be the next U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, he announced on Thursday afternoon.
- Secretary of State Marco Rubio will fill the national security adviser role on an interim basis.
Context: Former President Biden had just one national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, throughout his term.
- Barack Obama had three over the course of eight years, while George W. Bush and Bill Clinton each had two.
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