Trump selects Waltz for UN ambassador | Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

79% : "I'm deeply honored to continue my service to President Trump and our great nation," Waltz said Thursday.
57% : (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)President Donald Trump speaks during a cabinet meeting at the White House, Wednesday, April 30, 2025, in Washington, as Secretary of State Marco Rubio, left, and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, look on.
55% : "I am pleased to announce that I will be nominating Mike Waltz to be the next United States Ambassador to the United Nations.
50% : From his time in uniform on the battlefield, in Congress and, as my National Security Advisor, Mike Waltz has worked hard to put our Nation's Interests first," Trump wrote on social media.
50% : Trump is believed to be weighing several senior aides to eventually take on the national security adviser role, including special envoys Steve Witkoff and Richard Grenell, National Security Council senior director for counterterrorism Sebastian Gorka and senior State Department official Michael Anton, according to several people familiar with the ongoing deliberations.
49% : He welcomes vigorous debate," Waltz said of Trump.
48% : " Bruce declined to go into specifics about how Rubio would run both the State Department and the National Security Council at once, not to mention the foreign assistance programs that remain after the administration's dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development.
47% : It will also allow Democrats to compel sworn testimony on a range of sensitive matters including immigration, tariff policy, military operations and diplomacy.
44% : "They work well together," Bruce said of Rubio and Trump.
44% : Critics, primarily Democrats but some Republicans too, cited the administration for carelessness and chaos, even as Trump defended Waltz as a "good man" who had learned a lesson.
43% : Witkoff, a fellow New York City real estate maverick who has known Trump for years, has played a key role in negotiations to end the Russia-Ukraine war and the Israel-Hamas conflict and has been the administration's chief interlocutor in the Iran nuclear talks launched last month.
43% : Retired Navy Rear Adm. Mark Montgomery, an analyst at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies in Washington, said with the U.N. nomination Trump presented Waltz with a "soft landing" as he removed him from the powerful national security advisory post just over 100 days into the administration.
41% : THE LOOMER FACTOR Trump and the White House -- which insisted that no classified information was shared on the text chain -- publicly stood by Waltz throughout the episode.
40% : Critics, primarily Democrats but some Republicans, too, cited the administration for carelessness and chaos, even as Trump defended Waltz as a "good man" who had learned a lesson.
39% : Trump ultimately went through four men in the post.
37% : In recent weeks, Trump purged NSC staff aides who reported to Waltz and whom the president deemed out of step with his priorities.
37% : That purge came amid reports that Trump and advocates of military restraint suspected Waltz of more hawkish tendencies toward Iran and China.
35% : Witkoff has expressed no interest in taking the job, which requires hands-on management of numerous agencies, but could, if asked by Trump, assume temporary control of the National Security Council, according to one U.S. official familiar with the matter.
27% : Even as Waltz appeared to be weathering the "Signalgate" storm, Trump pulled the rug out from under him with the firing of senior National Security Council staff members, including his directors for intelligence, legislative affairs and technology.
21% : But the national security adviser was under siege from personalities such as Laura Loomer, who has encouraged Trump to purge aides who she believes are insufficiently loyal to the "Make America Great Again" agenda.

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