The vicious rumor swirling around Tulsi Gabbard, 44, as Trump bids aloha to yoga-obsessed intel chief

A vicious little code for Tulsi Gabbard is swirling around the White House.

Her DNI, Director of National Intelligence, title stands for ‘Do Not Invite.’

That’s the joke that aides have been telling as Gabbard was shutout of Donald Trump’s raid to capture Nicolas Maduro at the weekend.

The President’s orders were that Operation Absolute Resolve was strictly need to know – and Gabbard did not need to know. 

Secretary of State Marco Rubio pushed for the ex-Democratic congresswoman to be excluded, two sources told the Wall Street Journal. 

And while it’s aloha Gabbard, it’s hello CIA Director John Ratcliffe.

He was front and center last Saturday as the White House beamed pictures out from the Mar-a-Lago situation room.

The President increasingly relies on the CIA boss for crucial intelligence updates, preferring him over Gabbard. 

Her previous comments about the Maduro’s dictatorship had raised alarm bells. 

In 2019, the then-congresswoman for Hawaii staunchly opposed any American intervention in Venezuela and as recently as last month she was calling out ‘warmongers’ intent on pushing the US into conflict.

The White House feared that Gabbard would not support the action, sources told Bloomberg.

A senior intelligence official denied the report, claiming that Gabbard had provided important analysis which helped the overall mission.

But Gabbard’s Instagram posts tell a different story as the 44-year-old practices yoga and preaches peace from the beach in Hawaii.

‘My heart is filled with gratitude, aloha, and peace,’ she posted on January 1.

As DNI, Gabbard is supposed to be Trump’s top intelligence adviser overseeing America’s 18 spy agencies including the CIA. 

It is ‘highly unusual for the DNI not to be involved in any of these operations, especially something like Venezuela,’ said retired US Air Force intelligence colonel Cedric Leighton.

‘The visuals from that picture are a perfect description of what’s going on to Tulsi Gabbard at this point,’ he told Bloomberg.

Gabbard remained silent on the Venezuela raid for three days, despite normally being an outspoken Trump supporter who appears frequently on Fox News and posts constantly on social media. 

‘President Trump promised the American people he would secure our borders, confront narcoterrorism, dangerous drug cartels, and drug traffickers,’ Gabbard wrote Tuesday on X.

‘Kudos to our servicemen and women and intelligence operators for their flawless execution of President Trump’s order to deliver on his promise thru Operation Absolute Resolve.’

Trump publicly rebuked Gabbard in June after she said during congressional testimony that Iran was ‘not building a nuclear weapon.’

The comments were put to the President as he planned to strike the country’s nuclear sites alongside Israel.

‘I don’t care what she said,’ he told reporters aboard Air Force One.

A Rubio spokesman dismissed the reports that he had asked for Gabbard’s exclusion from the operation. 

Tommy Pigott of the State Department said: ‘This is a tired and false narrative attempting to promote a fake story of ‘division’ when there is none.’

A spokeswoman for Gabbard declined to comment further.