{"id":26586,"date":"2025-05-02T00:24:55","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T00:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=26586"},"modified":"2025-05-02T00:24:55","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T00:24:55","slug":"trump-believes-mike-waltz-will-make-a-better-un-ambassador-after-being-ousted-as-national-security-adviser-jd-vance-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=26586","title":{"rendered":"Trump believes Mike Waltz will \u2018make a better UN ambassador\u2019 after being ousted as national security adviser, JD Vance claims"},"content":{"rendered":"

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President Trump removed Mike Waltz as national security adviser because the Floridian would be a \u201cbetter UN ambassador,\u201d Vice President\u00a0JD Vance<\/a>\u00a0said Thursday \u2014 arguing that the former congressman\u2019s nomination to rep the US in Turtle Bay could be considered a \u201cpromotion.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe brought Mike on to do some serious reforms of the National Security Council. He has done that,\u201d Vance told Fox News \u201cSpecial Report\u201d host Bret Baier. \u201cI like Mike. I think he\u2019s a great guy. He\u2019s got the trust of both me and the president,\u00a0 but we\u00a0also thought that he\u2019d make a better UN ambassador as we get beyond this stage of the reforms that we\u2019ve made to the National Security Council.\u201d<\/p>\n

Vance told Fox News \u201cSpecial Report\u201d host Bret Baier that both he and Trump \u201clike Mike\u201d \u2014 but they \u201calso thought that he\u2019d make a better\u00a0UN ambassador<\/a>\u00a0as we get beyond this stage of the reforms that we\u2019ve made to the National Security Council.\u201d<\/p>\n

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It was announced on Thursday that Mike Waltz would leave his national security adviser role.AFP via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cI think you can make a good argument that it\u2019s a promotion,\u201d the veep added.<\/p>\n

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Trump announced earlier Thursday that he was nominating Waltz to be ambassador to the United Nations, which will require Senate confirmation.<\/p>\n

Secretary of State\u00a0Marco Rubio<\/a>\u00a0will serve as interim national security adviser in the interim, while also functioning as America\u2019s top diplomat.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the media wants to frame this as a firing,\u201d Vance said.<\/p>\n

\u201cDonald Trump has fired a lot of people. He doesn\u2019t give them Senate-confirmed appointments afterwards. What he thinks is that Mike Waltz is going to better serve the administration, most importantly, the American people in that role.\u201d<\/p>\n

Those close to the White House were shocked to hear of Trump\u2019s decision to shuffle his team, as many didn\u2019t see Waltz losing his old job \u2014 let alone being picked as UN envoy.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI think you can make a good argument that it\u2019s a promotion,\u201d JD Vance said of the move.AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Rep. Elise Stefanik<\/a>\u00a0(R- NY) was first selected to be Trump\u2019s UN ambassador, but was ultimately told to stay in Congress to boost the House GOP majority.<\/p>\n

Waltz is the first major White House figure removed from the second Trump administration, lasting just 102 days as national security adviser.<\/p>\n

The president publicly stood by Waltz after he mistakenly added Atlantic editor-in-chief\u00a0Jeffrey Goldberg<\/a>\u00a0to a Signal chat with administration members discussing military plans to strike the Houthis in Yemen \u2014 and sources told The Post they think Trump waited to move Waltz to show that he has the ultimate decision\u00a0making power.<\/p>\n

Vance, who was also in the Signal chat, expressed skepticism at the time about carrying out the strikes on the Houthis, complaining that the US was \u201cbailing Europe out again.\u201d<\/p>\n

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President Trump removed Mike Waltz as national security adviser because the Floridian would be a \u201cbetter UN ambassador,\u201d Vance added.<\/p>\n

But the VP claimed to Baier Thursday that he was just discussing messaging techniques.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you go back to when those messages were leaked, what we were doing is having a private strategic conversation about how to message this to the American people,\u201d Vance said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s always important to explain what you\u2019re actually doing, how to ensure that some of the frankly, our allied countries that are under spending on their own defense, are actually carrying some of the burden. That was a concern that I raised about this particular operation, but I wasn\u2019t overruled.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    President Trump removed Mike Waltz as national security adviser because the Floridian would be a \u201cbetter UN ambassador,\u201d Vice President\u00a0JD Vance\u00a0said Thursday \u2014 arguing that the former congressman\u2019s … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26587,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26588,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26586\/revisions\/26588"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}