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Trump replaces Mike Waltz with Marco Rubio as national security adviser​

United States President Donald Trump has announced he plans to reassign Mike Waltz, removing him from his current role as his national security adviser and nominating him instead to be ambassador to the United Nations.

The revelation on Thursday comes after a morning of intense speculation that Waltz and his second-in-command, Deputy National Security Adviser Alex Wong, had been pushed out of their roles.

“I am pleased to announce that I will be nominating Mike Waltz to be the next United States Ambassador to the United Nations,” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social. “Mike Waltz has worked hard to put our Nation’s Interests first. I know he will do the same in his new role.”

Trump said that Secretary of State Marco Rubio would instead step into the role of national security adviser, while continuing in his role as the country’s top diplomat.

“Together, we will continue to fight tirelessly to Make America, and the World, SAFE AGAIN,” Trump said.

The president’s message seemed to confirm the first major staffing shake-up of his second term. Earlier in the day, anonymous sources had told major US news outlets that Waltz had been forced out, after his relationship with Trump cooled.

Waltz’s reputation has suffered from an incident in which he appears to have added a journalist to a private chat on the app Signal where details of US military attacks were shared.

But Trump has publicly stood by Waltz and refused to mete out punishment for the Signal scandal.

During his first term, Trump also made a habit of cycling through national security advisers. Over his four years in office, he had four different national security advisers, starting with retired Lieutenant General Michael Flynn, who lasted only four weeks.

Waltz was a former US Congress member, who represented Florida’s 6th district starting in 2019. Although he was re-elected to his seat in 2024, he stepped down from his congressional role in January to join the Trump administration.

Previously, he had served in the US army as a Green Beret, a branch of the special forces.

“Mike has been a strong champion of my America First Foreign Policy agenda, and will be a tremendous champion of our pursuit of Peace through Strength,” Trump wrote on November 12, when he first announced Waltz as his pick for national security adviser.

But Waltz’s foreign-policy background has been a source of scrutiny. While Trump has positioned himself as a “peacemaker and unifier” during his second term, promising to end world conflict, critics point out that Waltz has historically taken a more hawkish stance.

He served as a counterterrorism adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney under the administration of former President George W Bush, and he opposed the large-scale withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan without concessions from the Taliban.

That made Waltz and his staff a target for some among Trump’s “Make America Great Again” (MAGA) base. At a White House meeting in April, far-right social media personality Laura Loomer reportedly criticised national security officials, including Waltz.

After that meeting, Trump fired six National Security Council (NSC) officials, although Waltz and Wong were not among them.

On Thursday, Loomer appeared to celebrate Waltz’s and Wong’s departures on social media. “Hopefully, the rest of the people who were set to be fired but were given promotions at the NSC under Waltz also depart,” she wrote.

But Waltz’s standing in the White House was particularly weakened after the revelation that editor Jeffrey Goldberg from The Atlantic magazine was added to a private chat in which top officials discussed a bombing campaign in Yemen.

In his chronicle of the incident, Goldberg said he received an unexpected invitation from a Signal account identified as Waltz’s. At first, Goldberg questioned whether the invitation was real. But after accepting, he found himself in the midst of a conversation with individuals including Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth, Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Rubio.

They appeared to be discussing upcoming plans to bomb targets associated with the Houthis, a Yemen-based armed group. Those details, shared by Hegseth, included the precise timings and aircraft used in the bombing campaign.

Waltz has admitted his role in the scandal, and the White House has since said the issue was “case closed”.

“I take full responsibility. I built the group,” Waltz told Fox News in March. Of Goldberg, he added: “We’ve got the best technical minds looking into how this happened. But I can tell you for 100 percent: I don’t know this guy.”

To take up his new role as UN ambassador, Waltz will face a Senate confirmation hearing — a process he did not have to undergo as a national security adviser. His involvement in the “Signalgate” scandal is likely to take a central role in his Senate questioning.

The UN ambassador’s position has been open since Trump yanked the nomination of Representative Elise Stefanik on March 27, on the premise that her seat in Congress was too valuable — and too vulnerable — to be put up for grabs in a special election.

Waltz acknowledged his nomination to the ambassadorship in a one-line social media post on Thursday.

“I’m deeply honored to continue my service to President Trump and our great nation,” he wrote.
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U.S. Chamber of Commerce asks Trump for tariff exclusions to ‘stave off a recession’​

  • The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is urging the Trump administration to immediately implement a “tariff exclusion process” in order to keep the U.S. economy from falling into a recession.
  • The group asked trade officials Scott Bessent, Howard Lutnick and Jamieson Greer to automatically lift tariffs on all small business importers and on all products that “cannot be produced in the U.S.”
  • Chamber CEO Suzanne Clark also asked the Trump administration to establish a process for businesses to quickly obtain tariff exclusions.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is urging the Trump administration to immediately implement a “tariff exclusion process” in order to keep the U.S. economy from falling into a recession and inflicting “irreparable harm” on small businesses.

In a letter first obtained by CNBC, the massive business lobbying group asked key Trump trade officials to automatically lift tariffs on all small business importers and on all products that “cannot be produced in the U.S.” or are not domestically available.

The letter from the Chamber’s CEO, Suzanne Clark, also asked the Trump administration to establish a process for businesses to quickly obtain tariff exclusions if they can demonstrate that import duties pose “significant risks to U.S. employment.”

“We are deeply concerned that even if it only takes weeks or months to reach agreements, many small businesses will suffer irreparable harm,” Clark wrote in the letter sent late Wednesday to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer.

“The Chamber requests the administration take immediate actions to save America’s small businesses and stave off a recession,” she wrote.

In an interview Thursday morning on CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street,” Clark said she penned the White House because “we were just getting inundated by small business requests for information, for relief.”

Those business owners are “afraid for the very survival of their business,” she said.

Clark also explained why the Chamber is opting not to challenge Trump’s tariffs in court — as others have done — even though her group had sued the Biden administration more than 20 times.

“We do worry about government overreach” and “micromanagement,” she said. “But in this case, the courts take a long time. And what small business needs, what all business needs, is more immediate relief.”

Asked in a press briefing if the Trump administration is considering the Chamber’s request for tariff exemptions, White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller suggested it is not.

“The relief for small businesses is going to come in the form of the largest tax cut in American history,” he said, referring to Republicans’ plan to pass a major tax cut bill this year.

Miller also said that President Donald Trump has “made clear” that companies that invest in the U.S. will face no liability from tariffs.

Pressed to clarify that he was rejecting the idea of short-term tariff relief for small businesses, Miller said, “It’s a yes on tax relief for small businesses. And again, you only pay the tariff for products that are made outside the United States.”
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I don't think you get the fascist movement that MAGA is.

Fascist movements are built on resentment. They appeal to people who are already suffering. The emotions that define fascism are "anger" and "hate" - when people are caught up in those emotions, they don't really care if they get hurt, they just want to hurt others.

There is a large fraction of Americans who have been - in their minds - left behind by the "liberal international order" and who, in turn, just want to see it all torn down. That's why they elected Trump. They want to see the world burn. Only then can they quench their thirst for blood and vengeance. Like the demon Mephastophilis said to Dr. Faust, "misery loves company."
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The problem is that the MAGA idiots have NO actual sense of grievance.Unlike Weimar Germany who was blamed for the entire WW1fiasco and the subsequent brutal war reparations, hyperinflation,social disorder etc -and the rise of an Adolf Hitler to address these true grievances-America who has been living at the highest levels of consumption and comfort has what /who to blame except themselves for any problems.Not the world nor especially China-who laboured/studied,scrimped and saved/invested in themselves while America made tens of billions and lived the high life.
 
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