You may have heard that NSC Mike Waltz has been fired promoted to UN Ambassador and Li’l Marco is going to be the National Security Adviser AND the Secretary of Defense. Clearly Marco’s ostentatious ass-kissing has bought him Trump’s full trust but this also means that Witkoff is going to be the guy in charge overseas and that’s not good.
We all know that Signalgate upset Trump not because of the security threat but because Waltz included his nemesis Jeffrey Goldberg on the call. But Trump had let that slide until now. So what’s the reason?
Waltz didn’t work as well with other Cabinet and White House officials as was hoped.
On a trip to Greenland in March, Vice President Vance counseled him about “working more collaboratively,” a senior White House official told Axios at the time.
The former congressman and Green Beret also treated Wiles with a dismissive attitude, two officials said.”He treated her like staff and didn’t realize he’s the staff, she’s the embodiment of the president,” one of them said. “Susie is a deeply loyal person and the disrespect was made all the worse because it was disloyal.”
Then came Loomer, the pro-Trump conspiracy theorist and social media influencer who has crusaded against what she claims are “disloyal” people and “neocons” who never should have been hired in Trump 2.0.
In a meeting with Trump a month ago, Loomer urged him to fire some of the staffers Waltz had appointed, and shared an old video of Waltz criticizing Trump years ago.
Friction point: Waltz didn’t fire everyone Loomer targeted — including his chief of staff Alex Wong, who is also now on his way out — but he acted like and was a diminished figure in the administration, the sources told Axios.
“He’s like a beaten dog that keeps doing the same trick so he doesn’t get beaten again. It’s a little sad,” the senior White House official said in mid-April.
“When you stack everything on Waltz, he just couldn’t survive. Laura Loomer gets a confirmed kill,” an administration adviser familiar with the discussions said.
Jesus that’s pathetic. Laura Loomer is certifiably insane. And she’s celebrating:
Loomer, 31, claimed credit for the firing of Waltz and his deputy, Alex Wong, whom she targeted in a flurry of critical posts in March that accused him, the son of Chinese immigrants, of advancing Chinese interests over America’s.
Loomer shared a later post about Wong’s firing with the word “SCALP.” Loomer reacted to Waltz’s firing with a one-word text to Politico: “Loomered.”
Oy vey…
“Hopefully, the rest of the people who were set to be fired but were given promotions at the NSC under Waltz also depart,” Loomer wrote on Thursday.
Loomer shared a later post about Wong’s firing with the word “SCALP.”