Trump tears into ‘bad’ reporter for getting it wrong on firing of Mike Waltz as he reveals what REALLY went down
Donald Trump tore into a reporter questioning him on the details of the first rearrangement of his Cabinet since starting his second term.
Two months after the Signal scandal that rocked the national security, intelligence and defense community, President Trump announced that his National Security Advisor Mike Waltz would be leaving his post to become U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio is now also serving in acting capacity as Trump’s NSA until a replacement is selected.
The first shake-up of Trump’s top team of advisors has many questioning what actually happened that caused the president to want Waltz reassigned.
‘It’s not a big deal. He was fine and where he is, he’ll do a good job,’ Trump said onboard Air Force One on Sunday when asked by a Hearst reporter about Waltz’s move.
He also slammed a reporter asking if he lost confidence in Waltz after the former congressman seemed to mistakenly add a journalist to a highly classified group chat working out attack plans on a Houthi target earlier this year.
President Donald Trump slammed a reporter aboard Air Force One over the weekend who questioned the details of Mike Waltz’s reassignment
Waltz was removed as National Security Advisor and is now Trump’s new nominee to be U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations
Many see Waltz’s change from national security to diplomacy as a demotion in the wake of the Signal scandal.
But Trump insisted he would personally want the cushy UN assignment over the NSA position if he had to choose which one was preferable.
‘He’s going to the United Nations,’ the president continued. ‘To me I think it’s – personally, if I had a choice for myself of doing, I’d rather have that job than the other.’
The United Nations post was previously meant to be filled by Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), who instead is now running for reelection for her House seat for New York’s 21st congressional district.
The reporter with Hearst Magazine on the president’s plane over the weekend asked Trump if it was Waltz who expressed he no longer had interest in the NSA post.
‘He didn’t resign. I just moved him,’ Trump quipped. ‘There was no resignation.’
Waltz has faced immense backlash after he seemed to mistakingly add a journalist to a highly sensitive Signal group chat discussing attack plans on a Houthi target earlier this year. Pictured: Waltz (left) attends a Cabinet meeting on April 24 alongside Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and President Trump
‘You people are so bad,’ the president continued as he launched an attack on the ‘fake news.’
‘You’re trying to make a big deal out of something that’s not. You are so bad,’ he continued. ‘That’s why nobody watches you anymore.’
Over the weekend, Democratic senators said that Waltz will have to go through a ‘brutal’ confirmation process to get the new assignment.
But with a Republican majority in Congress, it’s not likely that Waltz will face any real risk of not landing the reassignment.
