Trump to nominate national security advisor Mike Waltz as UN ambassador

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Source: CNBC

Published Thu, May 1 2025 2:21 PM EDT | Updated 2 Min Ago


President Donald Trump said Thursday that he will nominate Mike Waltz to be the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, confirming earlier reports that Waltz was being ousted as national security advisor. Trump said that Secretary of State Marco Rubio would serve as interim national security advisor until that post is filled.

The announcement came hours after multiple news reports that Walz would leave that role amid continued controversy over his creation of a Signal messaging app chat thread that was used by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to reveal U.S. military plans.

The president had previously nominated Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., for the U.N. ambassador slot. But Trump withdrew Stefanik’s nomination in late March, citing the very slim majority that Republicans hold in the House of Representatives.

“I am pleased to announce that I will be nominating Mike Waltz to be the next United States Ambassador to the United Nations,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post on Thursday. “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,” Trump wrote.

Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/01/trump-waltz-un-signal-hegseth.html

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Published Thu, May 1 2025 2:21 PM EDT | Updated 2 Min Ago


President Donald Trump said Thursday that he will nominate his national security advisor Mike Waltz to be the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.

Trump's announcement came hours after multiple news reports that Walz would leave his post as national security advisor amid continued controversy over his creation of a Signal messaging app chat thread that was used by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to reveal U.S. military plans.


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[rich7862]

1. Please let it be of outer space and let him leave now.

[hueymahl]

2. In depth analysis

Link to tweet

[patricia92243]

11. Rubio is Sec. of State. I honestly do not understand what is going on.

[IbogaProject]

14. Homophobic comedic post

The post refers to Grindr, I don't think that is where the chat was from.

[Doodley]

3. This is Trump's way of sticking two fingers up to the UN.

[11 Bravo]

4. Let's see ... he fucked up our national security, let's give him a shot at international relations!

The thought processes of the very stable genius are indeed wondrous to behold.

[surfered]

5. Can foreign ambassadors confide in him and not expect it to show up on Signal?

It’s too bad, Stefanik, you didn’t get the UN Ambassador job you wanted, but your mistake was trusting Trump. That loyalty thing only goes one way.

[Lonestarblue]

6. A man with no diplomatic experience going to an organization thar requires such experience.

What could go wrong!

[IcyPeas]

8. "No experience necessary". Loyalty to the felon is the only requirement.

[IronLionZion]

7. Signal chat diplomacy

quickly share classified intel with all UN members and accidentally add the Houthis. We'll hit this location at this date and time but it's no war plan.

[delisen]

9. Waltz to be vote for Putin. Stefanik must be furious. nt

[bluedigger]

10. He's failing up.

Now he gets to be Ambassador Waltz for life - it's a permanent honorific, like judge, I think.

[not fooled]

13. At first glance I read your comment as "permanent horrorific"

which certainly applies to anyone in this maladministration.

If Waltz had any self respect he'd slink off after his humiliating stint in national security.

I hope everyone at the U.N. shuns him.

[fujiyamasan]

12. Shuffling around a deck of shitty cards

[LetMyPeopleVote]

15. Maddow Blog-Trump boots Waltz from national security adviser role, nominates for U.N. ambassadorship

Secretary of State Marco Rubio will take over Waltz's White House duties in an interim capacity, Trump posted on Truth Social.
https://bsky.app/profile/stevebenen.com/post/3lo4plgihf22v

On the one hand, Waltz joins an ignominious group of failed Trump WH national security advisers (Flynn, McMaster, Bolton).

On the other, he also joins an ignominious group of failed House Republicans tapped for key second-term posts (Gaetz, Stefanik, and now Waltz).

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/mike-waltz-out-trump-national-security-adviser-signal-chat-rcna204115

As recently as Wednesday, during the latest White House Cabinet meeting, national security adviser Mike Waltz seemed to go out of his way to offer effusive praise for Donald Trump. The president’s difficulties with Waltz have been well documented, especially in the wake of the recent Signal chat scandal, but the adviser took the opportunity to make clear that he was pleased to be part of the White House team.

Less than 24 hours later, it appears Waltz is losing his White House job — while being nominated for a different job. Trump wrote on his social media platform:

I am pleased to announce that I will be nominating Mike Waltz to be the next United States Ambassador to the United Nations. ... In the interim, Secretary of State Marco Rubio will serve as National Security Advisor, while continuing his strong leadership at the State Department.

This is, among things, deeply odd — in part because Waltz has no meaningful diplomatic experience, in part because there's so little overlap between his current position and the U.N. ambassadorship, and in part because it's difficult to imagine how one person is supposed to be the nation's chief diplomat at the State Department and the president's top national security adviser in the West Wing.

What's more, with this latest appointment, Rubio now has four rather large roles to manage: secretary of state, acting archivist of the United States, acting administrator for the U.S. Agency for International Development, and interim national security adviser......

Publicly, the White House backed Waltz, but NBC News reported that Trump had privately “expressed frustration” with his aide. That coincided with a Politico report on a private presidential meeting in which top officials, including Vice President JD Vance, told Trump to “consider showing him [Waltz] the door.”

A day later, The New York Times reported that the president sought the counsel of a variety of people, asking whether to oust Waltz.

The public chatter ultimately died down, but there was ample evidence that Waltz had been privately sidelined in the West Wing, putting his future in jeopardy.

As for his next gig, the ambassadorship to the United Nations is a Senate-confirmed position, and Waltz's confirmation hearings are bound to be interesting. Observers should expect a great many questions about his ability to handle and protect classified information.