Donald Trump: Marco Rubio will be a security advisor instead of Mike Waltz

US President Donald Trump’s national security advisor Mike Waltz is to become a new American ambassador at the United Nations in New York. Foreign Minister Marco Rubio, who should also perform the function, should take over his previous post in the White House, wrote Trump on his online language tube Truth.

Previously, several US media had reported that the Waltz, who was involved in the affair by a group chat via the commercial app signal, was released as a security consultant.

Trump now wrote about Waltz: “Since his time in uniform on the battlefield, in the congress and as my national security advisor, Mike Waltz has worked hard to put the interests of our nation in the first place.” He will now continue this in his new role, says Trump. However, the occupation of the UN ambassador’s post must still be confirmed by the US Senate. The congress member Elise Stefanik was actually planned for this. Due to a tight majority in the US House of Representatives, Trump withdrew her nomination a few weeks ago.

Trump’s government has been in office since January 20. Waltz is the first prominent member of the government to leave the White House since then. In the morning (local time), Waltz had commented on the government of the government in the broadcaster Fox News. With his nomination for the position of the United Nations, he gets it reasonably aware of it: the post is not at the top of the Washington switching center of power, but has cabinet rank.

In a group chat of high-ranking government members about upcoming attacks on the Huthi-Miliz in Yemen in the Signal app, Waltz accidentally added the editor-in-chief of the US magazine “The Atlantic”, Jeffrey Goldberg. The latter then published the conversation in which US Defense Minister Pete Hegseth and other high-ranking government officials were also involved.

Trump expressly praised Hegseth for his “fantastic” work on Thursday at an event in the White House. This was increasingly under pressure because, according to media reports, he also informed his wife and brother about the Yemen attack in a second signal group chat.

The minority leader of the Democrats in the US Senate, Chuck Schumer, told Fox News that Trump had fired the wrong man that he should have released Hegseth.

Experts were amazed that leading government members obviously exchanged secret information on a platform that the government does not control itself. The White House contested that it was secret information. However, the screenshots of the chat course show that Hegseth posted details on the planned process in the Signal chat on March 15th shortly before the start of the US military strike-including the weather, start times of F-18 fight jets and drones.

Waltz later told Fox News that he himself formed the Signal Group. That was embarrassing. However, he did not know how the journalist’s number of the journalist came into his cell phone and this group. Perhaps a contact in his address book in the cell phone was saved with a different number, he speculated. He never hit the “Atlantic” editor Goldberg-a ​​Trump hater, scum and loser, as he called him-and never sent him a text message, said Waltz.

The chat published by Goldberg also revealed a lot about the government’s hiring. For example, Vice President JD Vance was quoted with the words: “I just hate helping Europe out of the term.” Hegseth therefore replies: “I share your disgust of European Schmarotzen. That is pathetic.”

In Trump’s first term, his then security advisor Michael Flynn had left office after just over three weeks. The background was a conversation of Flynn’s conversation about US sanctions with the Russian ambassador to Washington, through which he had lied to Vice President Mike Pence.

Note: This article has been updated.