US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley resign and US president Donald Trump accepts the resignation

US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he was considering the appointment of Dina Powell, a former executive at Goldman Sachs and a former White House adviser, as the new US ambassador to the United Nations instead of Nikki Haley.

Trump denied speculation that his daughter Ivanka would be nominated for the post.

Trump was speaking to reporters at the White House hours after Haley’s resignation was announced by the end of the year.

The US president said Haley would help him decide who would replace him.

Nikki Haley, the United States ambassador to the United Nations, resigned on Tuesday as the latest senior official to leave US President Donald Trump’s national security team.

“She did a great job”, Trump said in a statement at the Oval Office, where the outgoing ambassador sat next to him.

He said she would leave her post at the end of the year.

“She told me about six months ago that she wanted a break”, Trump said, hoping she could “return back sometime soon to his administration.

Trump stressed that Haley “was very special to me”, he did not disclose the name of the person who will succeed in this post, which is considered the rank of minister in the US government.

Haley did not reveal the reasons for her resignation, saying only that “it is important to understand that the time has come to resign” after a series of difficult jobs.

Haley, 46, said she did not plan to run for president in 2020 after rumors that she was hiding presidential ambitions.

“I will not run for elections”, she said.

She stressed that she did not yet have any plan for the future at the professional level.