The Washington Post: The real reason behind Trump’s anger and decision to fire Waltz

The Washington Post revealed that President Donald Trump’s decision to fire his National Security Advisor, Mike Waltz, was the result of a series of missteps and missteps that had left the president frustrated with him.

According to the Washington Post, Waltz’s fate was sealed after he included a journalist in a sensitive group chat on the Signal app last March.

However, he had been clashing with other senior officials since the beginning of the administration, including over whether to take military action against Iran, senior officials and some Trump advisers said on Friday.

The incident has prompted some senior White House officials to question the need for a traditional National Security Council and to be content with leaving Secretary of State Marco Rubio, whom Trump appointed Thursday as Waltz’s temporary replacement, in an interim role for an extended period.

This decision is likely to diminish the role of an institution that has played a powerful role in shaping the foreign policy of recent presidencies.

It also sidelines a key White House figure with a long history of favoring military intervention, officials told The Washington Post.

The Washington Post, citing a senior White House official, a Trump adviser, and another person familiar with the matter, who spoke on condition of anonymity, noted that Waltz’s problems worsened over time, and White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles increasingly felt he wasn’t a good fit for the president.

But Waltz also angered Trump after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited the Oval Office in early February, when the national security adviser appeared to share the Israeli leader’s conviction that the time had come to strike Iran.

Waltz appears to have engaged in extensive coordination with Netanyahu on military options against Iran before Netanyahu and Trump met in the Oval Office, according to the newspaper’s sources.

One source said that Waltz wanted to take US policy in a direction that Trump wasn’t inclined towards because the US hadn’t yet tried a diplomatic solution, adding that “it was up to Trump and the president wasn’t happy about it”.

“The president sets the agenda, and it’s his administration’s job to implement those policies,” White House communications director Stephen Chung said in a statement after a Washington Post inquiry.

“Everyone was working in the same direction, and that’s why he had the most successful first 100 days in history,” Chung added.

The Washington Post noted that some in the administration believed that Waltz was trying to tip the scales in favor of military action and was working hand in hand with the Israelis.

“If Jamie Baker was making a side deal with the Saudis to sabotage George H.W. Bush, he would have been fired,” an unnamed Trump adviser told the newspaper, referring to Bush’s secretary of state.

“You can’t do that… You’re working for your own president, not someone else’s,” he added.

Last Thursday, US President Donald Trump announced the dismissal of his National Security Advisor, Mike Waltz, and his nomination for the position of US ambassador to the United Nations.

Trump offered no explanation for his decision, but Waltz has been under heavy criticism since the Signal scandal.