According to the chat affair: Waltz goes, Rubio takes over: Trump sorted new bodies of power

US President Donald Trump has ordered the most profound personnel change in his government to date and dismissed the national security advisor Mike Waltz. Waltz is said to switch from the White House in Washington to the United Nations in New York and become an American ambassador there – compared to previous personnel disposal during Trump’s first term, a solution to both sides. Apparently Waltz was doomed to the affair about a group chat about the commercial app signal.

Foreign Minister Marco Rubio should temporarily take on Waltz’s previous items and thus move closer to Trump. In the future, he will advise the President on questions of national security and foreign policy – almost as an international crisis manager. The last official, who also filled the role of the Foreign Minister and the National Security Advisor, was Henry Kissinger in the early 1970s.

Waltz under pressure after signal scandal under pressure

“I feel deeply honored to continue my service for President Trump and our great nation,” Waltz commented on his transfer on platform X. According to the US media, the former Florida officer from Florida had been in favor of a long time in the White House. Trump respects Waltz, but it was not particularly satisfied with his work and personnel selection, it is said. The drop that made the barrel overflowed was the scandal for the group chat of high-ranking government members led via the signal app about upcoming attacks on the Huthi militia in Yemen.

In March, Waltz accidentally added the editor -in -chief of the US magazine “The Atlantic”, Jeffrey Goldberg, to which chat – and thus enables delicate communication in the press. The government gave the government extremely unpleasant headlines and brought Waltz into a shortage of explanation. He did not know how the journalist’s number of the journalist came into his cell phone and he then got into the group. Perhaps a contact in his address book was saved with a different number, he speculated.

Trump has reportedly wanted to fire him for a long time. However, it shouldn’t look like the president would give in to the negative press, it said.

US Vice Vance speaks of “promotion”

Waltz appeared less riot in public than some others from Trump’s closest circle. With a view to the Russian attack war in Ukraine, he saw the European partners in particular to do more and voted as a member of the congress in the last year against new billions for Kiev. At the same time, he is a sharp critic of Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin and, at least in the past, has openly questioned the seriousness of Russian negotiation offers.

With his transfer to New York, he was spared the lot of earlier Trump proteges, which were completely disempowered and sent from the courtyard by the president with swear and shame. The UN post is not at the top of the power centers in Washington, but has cabinet rank.

In the future, Waltz will rather play the second violin when designing the international politics of the United States. It is of no use that Trump’s Vice JD Vance represents the personnel as “promotion”. In addition, it is also important to overcome a hurdle for Waltz: the re -occupation of the – currently orphaned post of the UN ambassador must be approved by the Senate. The Republicans have a narrow majority there, but Waltz will not be able to avoid the usual hearings before the vote.

The Democrats – and possibly also one or the other Republican – should confront him with an extremely unpleasant questions with a view to the signal affair. The breakdown has brought him up to him anyway. Even after his departure, the White House had to jump aside again: In photos you can see how Waltz checks the signal app on his cell phone during a cabinet session on Wednesday. The communication director of the White House, Steven Cheung, reacted: “Signal is an approved app that is invited to our government telephones. Thank you for your attention in this matter.”

Rubio kicks in Kissinger’s footsteps

With Waltz’s departure, which the white house does not want to see as dismissal, Foreign Minister Rubio is even more in focus. The son of Cuban immigrants was discussed last summer as a candidate for the position of Vice President under Trump. The choice ultimately fell on Vance, while the then Republican Senator from Florida performed with the no less influential office of Foreign Minister.

The spokeswoman for the US State Department, Tammy Bruce, learned about Trump’s decision to make her boss Rubio temporarily as a national security advisor, apparently in front of the cameras in a press conference. Confronted with Trump’s social media post and the question of a journalist how long the Foreign Minister will fill both offices, she said: “It is obvious that I have just heard of them.” In this context, she spoke of a “miracle of modern technology and social media”.

Rubio puts pressure on Ukraine peace negotiations

Similar to Waltz, Rubio is not known for romping around and looks more reserved than Vice President Vance or Defense Minister Pete Hegseth. Trump’s hardliner positions nevertheless represents the 53-year-old aggressively.

During the scandal in front of running cameras when visiting the Ukrainian President Wolodymyr Selenskyj in the White House, Rubio was not one of those who aggressively approached the Ukrainian. Rather, he sat in silence and looked almost embarrassed. But he was together with Waltz, who should report the door afterwards.

Rubio was also the first to be publicly threatened with the fact that the United States could withdraw from the placement of the end of the Russian war of aggression if Russia and Ukraine did not quickly agree on a peace agreement. For Ukraine, the personnel reduction does not mean a reason to breathe a sigh of relief.

Rubio does not need the approval of the Senate for the post of the national security consultant – he can get started. And enrich his portfolio with another task: Currently, the Republican is also archivist from the United States and Director of USAI, the US Authority for International Development Cooperation.

Vance tried a joke with a view to his colleague’s accumulation of office. Obviously based on the Pope, whom the professed Catholic had personally met shortly before his death, he wrote: “I think he could do a little more. If there was only a vacancy for a believing Catholic …”