President Donald Trump mentioned Sunday that he plans to nominate a brand new nationwide safety advisor in about six months, telling reporters the previous advisor, Mike Waltz, didn’t resign, however was as an alternative tapped for an upgraded place because the administration’s ambassador to the United Nations.
Trump spoke with reporters on Air Drive One on Sunday evening, the place he was requested about a number of subjects, together with the commerce offers, Mexican cartels and the nationwide safety advisor place.
One reporter requested the president about Waltz’s exit because the nationwide safety advisor, which the president mentioned he was being chosen for what he referred to as a “larger place,” or an “improve.”
Trump additionally mentioned Waltz didn’t make any errors, and, because the ambassador to the UN, he would do an excellent job.
President Trump spoke to reporters on Air Drive One on Sunday evening. (Pool)
“I didn’t lose confidence in him,” Trump mentioned. “He’s going to the United Nations for a purpose. To me, I feel it’s personally, if I had assurance for myself… I’d relatively have that job than the opposite.”
He additionally reiterated that Waltz didn’t resign, however as an alternative, Trump moved him.
“There was no resignation,” the president mentioned.
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Michael Waltz attends a gathering between U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu within the Oval Workplace of the White Home on April 7, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Photos)
Waltz and different Nationwide Safety Council staffers have been ousted from their workplace on Thursday in essentially the most high-profile govt workplace exits of the second Trump administration. Trump’s announcement on naming Waltz as U.N. ambassador unfolded simply hours after the information started circulating.
Trump advised reporters Sunday that he plans to nominate somebody to the nationwide safety advisor place inside six months, saying there are lots of people who need the job, which works into Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s – the interim nationwide safety advisor – present duties.
The president was particularly requested if White Home deputy chief of employees Stephen Miller was being thought of for the function.
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White Home Deputy Chief of Employees Stephen Miller speaks throughout a press briefing on the White Home, Thursday, Could 1, 2025, in Washington. (AP Picture/Alex Brandon)
“Stephen Miller on the prime of the totem pole? I imply, I feel he type of not directly already has that job… as a result of he has rather a lot to say about a whole lot of issues,” Trump mentioned. “He is a really valued individual within the administration, Stephen Miller.”
The president was additionally requested if any commerce offers can be introduced this week, answering that there might be some coming.
However when pressed if he might say extra in regards to the offers, Trump held again.
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President Trump introduced elevated tariffs on international locations all over the world. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP through Getty Photos)
“No person understands,” he mentioned. “We’re negotiating with many international locations. However on the finish of this, I’ll set my very own offers as a result of I set the deal. They don’t set the deal. I set the deal.”
Trump mentioned he’s assembly with virtually all the international locations relating to commerce offers, together with China.
Explaining the method additional, Trump mentioned he’ll set the tariff, and a rustic might conform to it or not.
“They don’t need to take care of us, which is okay, as a result of we misplaced below Biden. We’re dropping $5 billion a day,” he mentioned. “Consider it. $5 billion a day. Now we’re not coping with China in any respect due to the tariffs… Due to that, we’re saving billions of {dollars}.”
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President Trump mentioned he supplied to ship U.S. troops to Mexico to struggle the cartels. (Reuters)
In the course of the gaggle, a reporter additionally requested if it was true that he supplied to ship U.S. troops to Mexico to care for the cartels.
“It’s true as a result of they need to be. They’re horrible individuals which were killing individuals left and proper,” Trump mentioned. “They’ve made a fortune in promoting medicine and destroying different individuals.”
He defined that the cartels are chargeable for importing fentanyl into the U.S., which has killed over 300,000 individuals this 12 months.
Trump referred to as the cartel members “unhealthy information.”
“If Mexico needed assist with the cartels, we might be honored to go in and do it,” Trump mentioned “I advised [Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum] that I’d be honored to go in and do it. The cartels try to destroy our nation. They’re evil.”
The supply was finally rejected, which Trump mentioned was as a result of Sheinbaum is afraid of the cartels, so afraid that she “can’t even suppose straight.”
