Posted on 05/01/2025 3:28:37 PM PDT by Miami Rebel
Former National Security Advisor Mike Waltz was photographed checking his Signal chat the day before President Donald Trump announced he was stepping down from the role.
Reuters published photos of Waltz during a Wednesday cabinet meeting checking his Signal account. Chats with newly-appointed National Security Advisor Marco Rubio and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard could be seen on his phone.
U.S. National Security Advisor Mike Waltz is seen checking his mobile phone while attending a cabinet meeting held by U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., April 30, 2025. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein pic.twitter.com/gQAvgypVFf
— Idrees Ali (@idreesali114) May 1, 2025
Photos show Mike Waltz literally checking Signal during the cabinet meeting (via Reuters) pic.twitter.com/XCxn6Tja4I
— Charlie Spiering (@charliespiering) May 1, 2025
“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. Together, we will continue to fight tirelessly to Make America, and the World, SAFE AGAIN,” the president wrote on Truth Social.
Before Trump’s announcement, reports indicated that he was set to fire Waltz. The former Florida congressman appeared on Fox News where he talked up the administration and his work just moments before news of his ousting broke.
Waltz and Signal do not have the best history as Waltz previously accidentally invited Atlantic editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg into what was supposed to be a secure chat discussing a strike in Yemen. That chat included Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, and others.
Whether Waltz was fired for disloyalty or incompetence or philosophical differences, it is absurd for him to be rewarded with a cushy gig like UN ambassador.
By the way, since Mark Halperin reported on the firing hours before either Waltz or Tammy Bruce, the State Department spokeswoman, knew about, I guess we can expect and new round of leak-hunting and polygraphs.
I’m convinced that Waltz was fired from his National Security job because he misled Trump into think that the Russians were ready to buckle to Trump’s demands for a (meaningless) cease fire. Waltz should have known better, like Tulsi (who still has her job), but instead substituted his wishful think for FACTUAL information, which led to Trump’s friend and negotiator going to Russia and looking like a fool.
Not good to play Trump that way.
BS. Signal is fine, the error was in giving access to an unauthorized person.
How many times does this have to be explained on FR?
I would love to play poker with this clown.
Weren’t you the same dude who was flogging the signal story the first time around like a rino in heat?
Why are there phones at all at such meetings? Whenever I had to enter a security area all phones were put in lockers.
The mouth breathers and kneejerkers will never get it; they lack the intellectual capacity.
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Wasn’t the Signal app put on their phones BY the WH security people? No one is going to remove it until someone way up high realizes this is a very big problem & requires it be removed. And maybe shut down the CIA/NSA/etc., at the same time.
It looked like there was a text for Rubio, J.D. Vance and Tusi Gabbard in that list. Does that mean they’re still using it too? I’m not familiar with Signal, only the issue that occurred with Goldberg.
I guess the cabinet members are not supposed to use cell phones?
Or should they stick to SMS?
Or are a bunch of boomer Luddites missing the point?
exactly.as long as classified not transmitted.
“Yep. It had nothing to do with Signal/leaking/Goldberg distractions and everything to do with actual foreign policy and national security decision making.”
Yeah, if it was Signal, he would have been fired IMMEDIATELY. The fun thing regarding this Neocon is that he’ll now be FORCED to work with the Russians at the UN. For that reason, I suspect he doesn’t stay there very long.
He's going to continue serving in the Trump Administration, at the prerogative of the President of the United States.
Specifically, he's being transferred into an ambassadorship role dependent upon a simple majority confirmation vote by the US Senate.
MEDIAITE excerpt:
Trump announced on Wednesday that Rubio would be replacing Waltz while Waltz will move into the role of ambassador to the United Nations.
“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. Together, we will continue to fight tirelessly to Make America, and the World, SAFE AGAIN,” the president wrote on Truth Social.
SOURCE:
The move and shift in National Security Advisor responsibility makes sense on a couple of different levels. First the U.N position carries “prestige” softening the ouster of Waltz; second, with the foreign policy run from the White House, a dual Secretary of State/NSA role works under currently assigned responsibilities.
The combined nature of the SoS and NSA position makes good interim sense; both would have essentially been traveling the same itinerary. However, putting the former head of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence into place as National Security Advisor, well, that’s a level of trust that has never before been witnessed.
Mike Waltz becomes the Nikki Haley of term-2.
Optimal solution.
>> it is absurd for him to be rewarded with a cushy gig like UN ambassador.<<
I think of it as a punishment
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