Mike Waltz, Trump's ex-national security advisor, named UN ambassador

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

66% : Mike Waltz, the former top national security advisor, has been named UN ambassador by President Donald Trump.
51% : Goldberg noted in his story that top officials in the chat discussed military plans to attack the Houthi militant group in Yemen, and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth sent a message sharing strike times by U.S. warplanes and drones, USA Today reported, citing the article.
43% : Trump made the announcement Thursday on his Truth Social platform, writing "I am pleased to announce that I will be nominating Mike Waltz to be the next United States Ambassador to the United Nations.
42% : "He's not getting fired," Trump told Fox News.
30% : President Donald Trump initially supported Waltz after his national security adviser and other members of denied sharing any classified war plans on the publicly available app Signal. RELATED: Trump not planning to fire Waltz after national security text chain leak The chat came to light when Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, released a March 24 story detailing how Waltz accidentally invited him into the chat.
25% : In March, FOX News reported that Trump was not planning to fire Waltz after the release of The Atlantic article.

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