Following a scandal involving a chat group leak, US media said Thursday that Donald Trump’s national security advisor will be leaving his position, marking the first significant departure of the president’s new term.
In an announcement on social media, Trump stated that Waltz would be his choice to be the next US ambassador to the UN and that “he has worked hard to put our nation’s interests first.”
Sources claimed earlier in the day that Trump had made the decision to oust Waltz from his White House job.
For the first time since Henry Kissinger in the 1970s, a single individual will serve as both the national security advisor and secretary of state when Trump appoints Marco Rubio to temporarily replace Waltz.
