Mike Waltz Wasn't MAGA Enough for Trump

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

65% : And on the morning of his dismissal, he presented himself as a happy warrior in an appearance on Fox & Friends, hailing enhanced military recruitment and saying of Trump, who would soon replace him, "This is leadership at its finest."
60% : Trump ultimately had four national security advisers in his first term.
36% : Trump said he would give Marco Rubio, his secretary of state, the added responsibilities of the national security adviser -- at least on an interim basis.
35% : The instability began almost instantly, when Waltz's team moved in the first week of the new administration to dismiss scores of career officials detailed to the NSC -- a priority for Trump, who believes that NSC staff thwarted his agenda in his first term.
32% : His first reaction to Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022 was to accuse President Vladimir Putin of "despicable war crimes," the kind of unambiguous criticism of Moscow that Trump has refused to utter.
28% : Hours after the news of Waltz's removal broke, Trump wrote on Truth Social that he would nominate the former Florida congressman as ambassador to the United Nations.
27% : Read: Inside the fiasco at the National Security Council In some ways, the officials said, Waltz was never a good fit for Trump.
26% : Today, the administration's 101st day, Trump acted against his national security adviser, removing Waltz along with his principal deputy, Alex Wong.
24% : A former Green Beret, Waltz had, for a time during last year's campaign, endeared himself to Trump by assiduously defending him on Fox News.
19% : " In April, Trump ordered the dismissal of numerous NSC officials based on the advice of Laura Loomer, the far-right activist who rose to prominence by making incendiary anti-Muslim claims and who last year shared a video that labeled 9/11 an "inside job."
7% : In an Oval Office meeting with Trump, Loomer accused senior members of Waltz's staff of disloyalty.
6% : During Trump's first campaign for president, in 2016, Waltz appeared in an anti-Trump ad to accuse him of dodging the Vietnam draft and exhort fellow conservatives to "stop Trump now."

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