In public, President Trump has defended his national security adviser in the wake of the Signal leak. But behind the scenes, he has been casting around for advice. Read an inside account of Trump’s deliberations over what to do about Michael Waltz.
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Nope.
mar 29, 2025, 11:27 pm • 0 0 • view
Why just Waltz?
mar 30, 2025, 3:45 am • 0 0 • view
Whatza matter donny boy? Ya can't fire anybody anymore? Pfft.
mar 30, 2025, 3:35 am • 0 0 • view
He can hardly fire him..otherwise all could go. Musk must have made an illegal application for visa..where would it stop?
mar 29, 2025, 10:08 pm • 1 0 • view
Yes you should. How is it a question.
mar 29, 2025, 10:16 pm • 1 0 • view
Donald the peacemaker casting for advice. My big fat.. 🙄 Who wrote this nonsense?
mar 30, 2025, 2:21 am • 0 0 • view
Whoever is leaking is a hero. This is the benefit of not resigning when you disagree - you can wreck havoc from the inside.
mar 29, 2025, 11:55 pm • 3 0 • view
Trump's appointees and cohorts function as proxies between him and accountability. He will cut one loose only when that person serves no further purpose as a proxy. This is why any criticism and focus from the media, or the opposition, must not be targeted solely at the proxy, but Trump as well.
mar 29, 2025, 10:13 pm • 6 0 • view
Fire all of them and you buffoon
mar 29, 2025, 11:55 pm • 0 0 • view
Donald can’t make even the most basic decision without someone giving him instructions.
mar 29, 2025, 10:07 pm • 35 3 • view
I was thinking the same thing. Doesn't seem like a very strong leader.
mar 29, 2025, 10:43 pm • 1 0 • view
mar 30, 2025, 8:03 pm • 0 0 • view
Según el manual de la instalación de autocracias que han implantado a nivel mundial en países como Venezuela, España, México, Colombia y países alrededor de Rusia. Trump va a defender a Waltz hasta el final. No lo va a despedir.
mar 29, 2025, 10:16 pm • 1 0 • view
What to do about Netanyahu end the occupation in Westbank?
mar 29, 2025, 10:15 pm • 2 0 • view
😂
mar 29, 2025, 10:10 pm • 0 0 • view
Well when you hire a bunch of idiots or ‘goldfish’ maybe ‘one’ needs to take responsibility for their choices..
mar 30, 2025, 1:01 am • 0 0 • view
Hegseth needs to go too!
mar 29, 2025, 10:12 pm • 0 1 • view
Gift please?
mar 29, 2025, 10:26 pm • 0 0 • view
If President Trump fired Walz, he would be 2 for 2 regarding national security advisors. Let's not forget Flynn.
mar 30, 2025, 1:29 am • 1 0 • view
This scandal will not go away. What desperate move will Trump take to distract us from his incompetent national security appointments? People are saying he will start a war.
mar 29, 2025, 10:26 pm • 0 0 • view
Almost feels this was leaked to keep focus off Hegseth, the guy who shared the attack plans.
mar 29, 2025, 10:13 pm • 10 1 • view
Maybe this whole thing is a distraction from Musk’s violent destruction of the nation.
mar 30, 2025, 12:07 am • 1 0 • view
Chaos is handy when what you want is Martial Law.
mar 30, 2025, 12:08 am • 0 0 • view
Its not Waltz… its that f up Hedgeth
mar 29, 2025, 10:31 pm • 1 0 • view
The New York Times is in denial about its own role in 2024.
mar 29, 2025, 11:20 pm • 1 0 • view
It’s a trap…who ever says yes will be fired
mar 29, 2025, 11:58 pm • 1 0 • view
No question Hedegth needs to go and embarrassment to our country. Gabbard is working with Russia cannot speak the truth
mar 30, 2025, 11:28 am • 0 0 • view
So this clown-car is, apparently, the response of these exceptionally qualified folks to the regulations that require records of all official communications. "Rules?, rules, we don't need no stinking rules."
mar 30, 2025, 12:12 am • 1 0 • view
Hello Trumpy. Hegspeth isn’t stealing pens or sneaking out early on Friday as we do. He’s compromising national security. Fire him.
mar 29, 2025, 10:06 pm • 0 1 • view
Fire Waltz and not Hegseth?
mar 29, 2025, 10:36 pm • 0 0 • view
All of them should be sacked for Gross Misconduct, Treason, and being utter dickheads! They should then be imprisoned!
mar 29, 2025, 11:17 pm • 0 0 • view
WHAT ABOUT HEGSETH…MIKE INVITED MR GOLDBERG BUT PETE LET THE ENTIRE CAT HERD OUT IF THE BAG. SO THEY SHOULD GO TOGETHER!!
mar 30, 2025, 12:54 am • 0 0 • view
He needs to fire everyone on the chat. But let him cling to the morons, it adds to his ridiculous image.
mar 29, 2025, 10:03 pm • 0 1 • view
I had read, can't remember where, that this administration had adopted 'Signal' as the preferred method of communicating. Wrong as that all is, if Waltz was complying with Trump's policy, he shouldn't be fired. Should he? This IS Trump, though. Anyone can be tossed to the wolves.
mar 29, 2025, 10:18 pm • 0 0 • view
Haberman doing Haberman things
mar 29, 2025, 11:37 pm • 1 0 • view
The MAGA GOP should do polls to help their popular, but incompetent leader make decisions like this.
mar 30, 2025, 1:39 pm • 1 0 • view
Throw Mike under the bus… he’ll have to, to make it look like he’s doing something … maybe
mar 29, 2025, 10:21 pm • 1 0 • view
Why are you trying so hard to normalize the behaviour in the white house?
mar 29, 2025, 10:39 pm • 7 0 • view
Don’t let their cute little Hogan Hero faces fool these Reichers are as serious as a heart attack. Next is martial law.
mar 30, 2025, 12:09 am • 0 0 • view
2025 will go down in history as when the social experiment called the “United States of AMERICA” crashed due to the most self-righteous incompetent leadership ever voted in by the experiment’s participants.
mar 30, 2025, 3:13 pm • 0 0 • view
Fire him AND Hegseth AND Gabbard-at the least!!
mar 30, 2025, 8:50 am • 0 0 • view
Good bye!
mar 29, 2025, 10:47 pm • 0 0 • view
Maybe fire everyone, including yourself.
mar 30, 2025, 8:47 pm • 1 0 • view
Wouldn't he have to fire them all? Accidentally adding a reporter is what made it visible but openly discussing obviously classified war plans on personal devices and an over the counter app is the actual problem.
mar 29, 2025, 10:10 pm • 1 0 • view
He needs to fire them all!
mar 30, 2025, 2:21 am • 0 0 • view
Would Gen. Austin CONDONE this?
mar 30, 2025, 8:37 am • 1 0 • view
FIRE his ass! Hegseth too. In fact, you should fire EVERYONE you've hired. They're ALL incompetent! When you're done with that, RESIGN! FU Trump. You should be in PRISON, not the Oval Office.
mar 29, 2025, 10:38 pm • 4 0 • view
Tomorrow
mar 30, 2025, 12:10 am • 0 0 • view
Everyone on that chat should be fired and Hegseth should be prosecuted for disclosure of classified information.
mar 29, 2025, 10:39 pm • 21 0 • view
Pete Hegseth shared classified military details. Fire both of them.
mar 29, 2025, 10:38 pm • 1 0 • view
The Marshall’s Two executions on MUBI… apropos nothing at all
mar 30, 2025, 5:51 am • 0 0 • view
How about firing ALL of them?
mar 29, 2025, 10:31 pm • 1 0 • view
I'm shocked that he (they) has not been offered some medals and a promotion. I'm aware that some positions of Interstellar Special Envoy are vacant.
mar 29, 2025, 10:57 pm • 0 0 • view
Trump sure sounds indecisive to me, not much of a strong man and more like a small boy
mar 29, 2025, 10:04 pm • 2 0 • view
He just doesn’t know how to govern. The governance by make believe and make stuff up of The Great American Moron Doctrine.
mar 29, 2025, 10:12 pm • 1 0 • view
This is giving a reality show president the reality show PR treatment.
mar 29, 2025, 10:21 pm • 1 0 • view
This is gossip. Of the Versailles variety. Where is the discussion of law and democratic norms? This is giving a reality show president the reality show treatment. Fucking unserious.
mar 29, 2025, 10:17 pm • 4 0 • view
The whole crowd is unserious. But as the saying goes (sort of): “though the boys throw stones in jest, the frog does in earnest”…
mar 30, 2025, 12:13 am • 0 0 • view
Perhaps he added the journalist deliberately? To expose his outfit.
mar 29, 2025, 10:07 pm • 1 0 • view
It’s Pete Hegseth that should be at the front of the line. Yes- Waltz set up the call, but it’s Hegseth that made the decision to share top secret info.
mar 29, 2025, 10:43 pm • 2 0 • view
“You’re fired” wasn’t the obvious choice?
mar 30, 2025, 2:31 pm • 3 0 • view
The administration should step down.
mar 30, 2025, 5:04 pm • 1 0 • view
The Orange Grand Poo-Ba realizes his man Walz is an idiot, now trying to think through the implications of his base connecting the dots-
mar 29, 2025, 10:26 pm • 1 0 • view
Fire them all
mar 29, 2025, 10:27 pm • 1 0 • view
DT’s national security strategy: pretend nothing’s wrong, then panic behind the scenes. Michael Waltz leaks classified info on Signal, and instead of action, we get PR damage control. This is not leadership—it’s reckless, dangerous, and pathetic. #WaltzLeak #NationalSecurity #SignalLeak
mar 29, 2025, 10:38 pm • 2 0 • view
The despot is always interested in what his clown posse thinks: 1. He's not capable of leadership; 2. If he follows their counsel and it goes wrong, he can blame it on them.
mar 29, 2025, 11:11 pm • 3 0 • view
speaks volumes
mar 30, 2025, 1:16 am • 1 0 • view
The point of his administration is to create an environment of zero accountability. Of course he isn't firing anyone, that was just for TV
mar 30, 2025, 12:10 am • 0 0 • view
Making Trump look bad moves you closer to the chopping board.
mar 29, 2025, 10:21 pm • 1 0 • view
Which way did he go, which way did he go.🤪
mar 29, 2025, 10:17 pm • 0 0 • view
Moron Mike Waltz is probably one of the smarter idiots working for the orange buffoon.
mar 29, 2025, 10:11 pm • 1 0 • view
Casting around for advice? Or completely stumped on what to do? He's so weak, he daren't fire any of them even when in any sane administration he should.
mar 29, 2025, 10:04 pm • 1 1 • view
My words to Trump…..you’re both FIRED!
mar 30, 2025, 12:03 pm • 1 0 • view
The amount of long-term damage Trump is doing to US credibility and to its reputation is astronomical. They will be damaged for decades after he is gone, which we hope is soon.
mar 30, 2025, 2:32 pm • 3 0 • view
www.newsweek.com/defense-secr.... hope it's ok to post another news article in response, if it's not lmk I'll remove
mar 29, 2025, 11:59 pm • 1 0 • view
Has a face only a mother would love to flatten with a cast iron frying pan.
mar 30, 2025, 12:11 am • 0 0 • view
i don't support violence in this context.
mar 30, 2025, 8:40 am • 0 0 • view
It is way harder to make things even to fix things than t break them. What to do about the most destructive among us?
mar 31, 2025, 12:46 am • 0 0 • view
Change is destruction. All change. Some gradual change in productive directions over a graceful period of time will improve a system. We are all dependent in systems he is destroying. If one destroys quickly, no good will take its place quickly.
mar 31, 2025, 12:44 am • 0 0 • view
You are right It was hyperbole Sorry
mar 30, 2025, 2:19 pm • 0 0 • view
Maybe he should stock up on a few of these. And maybe he should consider his Chief of Staff as well, as apparently he was unaware of the chat and its contents.
mar 30, 2025, 2:31 am • 0 0 • view
Why is he asking for advice? .... He never takes it. It's another subterfuge for someone else to blame . Like the schoolyard bully pointing a finger ...." He did it!"
mar 29, 2025, 10:23 pm • 0 0 • view
Need hints on when to fire someone? President Trump should watch a few reruns of The Apprentice.
mar 29, 2025, 10:30 pm • 0 0 • view
And, as a journalist would about a source, Goldberg won't say why he and Waltz have been communicating, so there might be something to Trump's misdirected concerns. Or maybe Goldberg is just trying to drive Trump crazy 😂
mar 30, 2025, 2:49 pm • 1 0 • view
Fire him and anyone involved in his placement in the position.
mar 29, 2025, 10:50 pm • 2 0 • view
He is upset that the moron got caught.
mar 29, 2025, 10:03 pm • 12 0 • view
Even having to ask that question is a damming indictment of his competence.
mar 29, 2025, 10:43 pm • 1 0 • view
omg really ? "casting about?" here's some advice FIRE WALTZ THEN HAVE HIM ARRESTED & TRIED FOR VIOLATING THE ESPIONAGE ACT
mar 29, 2025, 10:08 pm • 1 1 • view
So all the propaganda the @nytimes.com has been spewing for Trump was published for access journalism. Is it worth the price?
mar 29, 2025, 11:01 pm • 2 0 • view
Even if Waltz is fired, the rest of them remain. Nothing is solved.
mar 30, 2025, 2:00 am • 1 0 • view
I'm waiting for the inevitable "I didn't really know him."
mar 30, 2025, 2:09 am • 0 0 • view
He should fire him, hegseth, musk the whole bunch!
mar 29, 2025, 10:22 pm • 0 0 • view
Fire the lot of them and start over again! No organization can have people in senior leadership roles mess up like this and remain in their positions. Leaders need to build trust and must model the desired organizational behaviors for those in their charge.
mar 29, 2025, 11:12 pm • 3 0 • view
Start by firing the current President. Then sweep rest into the trash heap of history. Before it is too late!!
mar 30, 2025, 12:06 am • 2 0 • view
That's the starting line up it only gets worse from here. And here is worse than I anticipated.
mar 30, 2025, 12:05 am • 0 0 • view
We definitely should fire your pimply ass and send it to prison.
mar 30, 2025, 12:03 am • 0 0 • view
I suspect that Waltz intentionally started the scandal, in a fit of patriotic spirit.
mar 29, 2025, 10:45 pm • 1 0 • view
The fickle news cycle is going to save Waltz and Hegseth. The Signal Scandal is already falling off the front page.
mar 29, 2025, 10:44 pm • 0 0 • view
In this shameful Signalgate matter, Pete Hegseth - that inexperienced, unqualified, reckless man committed what amounts to a grossly negligent act of betrayal against our fighter pilots. He needs to be held to account, and if he doesn't resign, he needs to be fired!
mar 29, 2025, 10:12 pm • 2 1 • view
YES
mar 30, 2025, 12:28 am • 1 0 • view
He had NO problem firing blacks and qualified Admirals and Generals but THIS he hedges on? Trump is unfit for office! Grow a pair and call him out on this, NYT!
mar 29, 2025, 10:25 pm • 19 0 • view
Yea they were smarter than he is. It’s a trap for those who say yes, he will fire them. If his lips are moving it’s either a lie or a trap.
mar 29, 2025, 11:59 pm • 0 0 • view
What causes chaos is what drives him.
mar 30, 2025, 12:04 am • 0 0 • view
Not enough. Fire them all!
mar 29, 2025, 10:14 pm • 2 1 • view
Nah, fire Hesgeth
mar 29, 2025, 10:03 pm • 6 0 • view
Waltz apparently invited the journalist and Hegseth shared attack plans over a non-secure messaging app. They should both be fired. Not even a close call.
mar 29, 2025, 10:19 pm • 1 0 • view
Should never gave hired. In fact, start over completely.
mar 30, 2025, 3:55 pm • 2 0 • view
Good to see Maggie embedding that Donald the Dove nonsense into the piece.
mar 30, 2025, 1:07 am • 1 0 • view
You should fire all of them and yourself!
mar 29, 2025, 10:45 pm • 4 0 • view
@nytimes.com What about her emails? Once upon a time people could read the @nytimes.com and expect some level of honesty or truth. Now it's just another trashy publication. What happened to journalists wanting to win awards for being journalists. Not paid propagandists. 8 years of stupid emails.
mar 29, 2025, 10:20 pm • 6 1 • view
?
mar 29, 2025, 10:36 pm • 0 0 • view
mar 30, 2025, 6:35 am • 0 0 • view
Trump’s secretary of defense is a dangerous moron exposing defense secrets to foreign hacking so he can cosplay being a warrior and Trump is upset only about Goldberg being on the call.
mar 29, 2025, 10:08 pm • 1 1 • view
We learned in Trump's first term he was a terrible personnel manager and he only got worse. He's hired the most unqualified, untalented, low IQ people whose only real job is to tell him how great he is.
mar 29, 2025, 10:37 pm • 1 0 • view
That’s a flight to El Salvador I could get behind
mar 30, 2025, 12:55 pm • 0 0 • view
President Trump seems dumb. Can't make clear decisions by himself. You should consider covering this fact.
mar 29, 2025, 11:45 pm • 2 0 • view
Spot on. When the Orange Felon does the bare minimum, the NYT positions him as some kind of political messiah. Awful complicit journalism.
mar 30, 2025, 2:23 am • 0 0 • view
He SHOULD fire ALL of them!
mar 29, 2025, 10:15 pm • 0 0 • view
Yes. And fire Hegseth.
mar 29, 2025, 10:05 pm • 14 0 • view
And his brother www.defensenews.com/pentagon/202...
mar 29, 2025, 10:38 pm • 6 0 • view
Another DEI hire: dumb, egotistical, and ignorant.
mar 29, 2025, 11:28 pm • 3 0 • view
YEESSSSSSSS another DEI
mar 30, 2025, 4:38 am • 0 0 • view
Fire Watz and Hegseth. Grow a spine!
mar 30, 2025, 12:26 am • 1 0 • view
Isn’t it great to know you have such a decisive President.
mar 30, 2025, 12:10 am • 0 0 • view
Trump for all his moronic actions and malicious thinking, has an innate survival instinct which kicks in when he knows he's in danger of losing power or influence. He will have to find a scapegoat and the finger points to Waltz. Everyone who interacted on the chat should go, but it will be only 1.
mar 29, 2025, 10:14 pm • 5 1 • view
Yes. The whole lot of them. He’s the scapegoat but they should all be accountable. But you wouldn’t recognize accountability now, would ya?
mar 29, 2025, 10:12 pm • 1 1 • view
weird contrast to NYT coverage of hillary clinton
mar 29, 2025, 10:12 pm • 11 2 • view
Trump should fire himself.
mar 29, 2025, 10:12 pm • 1 1 • view
Maybe Elon could do a poll on X to help him ‘decide’. Or just tell Trump what to do, since he’s the real (unelected) President. Better headline: ‘Should I have ever hired this Island of Corrupt Misfit Toys?’
mar 29, 2025, 10:29 pm • 1 0 • view
Fire yourself
mar 29, 2025, 11:01 pm • 2 0 • view
Never elect a moron
mar 29, 2025, 10:39 pm • 0 0 • view
Fire the whole group
mar 29, 2025, 10:36 pm • 1 0 • view
Fire the administration
mar 29, 2025, 10:32 pm • 0 0 • view
Pete Hegseth & Mike Waltz should resign. The longer it takes the weaker Trump looks, since he should’ve already fired them!
mar 29, 2025, 10:49 pm • 2 0 • view
Best choice would be for Trump to fire his entire National Security Team which would also include removing Vance from Office, and then for Trump himself to resign in disgrace
mar 30, 2025, 12:02 am • 4 0 • view
He thinks he’s still playing in The Apprentice.
mar 30, 2025, 2:07 pm • 1 0 • view
« By contrast, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s job appears to be safe. » The triumph of meritocracy.
mar 29, 2025, 10:26 pm • 0 0 • view
Trump is a weak man incapable of making the right decision
mar 29, 2025, 10:11 pm • 0 1 • view
Make him UN Ambassador…😉 Elise Stefanik 🤯
mar 29, 2025, 10:25 pm • 1 0 • view
Where are all the articles and editorials about how top secret and confidential information is being released by Trump's own incompetent administration? Y'all spent years going after HRC for emails but mostly silence when it comes to Trump.
mar 29, 2025, 10:10 pm • 15 3 • view
Are y'all proud of carrying the water on behalf of the degenerate Trump?
mar 29, 2025, 10:09 pm • 1 1 • view
I was nervous we would have no visibility into the behind the scenes in the White House. Visibility is limited, but journalists have really built contacts even into the most authoritarian regime in American history.
mar 29, 2025, 10:28 pm • 1 0 • view
I am more concerned about Pete! What military officer is going to trust him now after his hypocrisy.
mar 30, 2025, 2:18 pm • 1 0 • view
A little late to be wondering and I would be wondering it was truly an Accident??? Think of the odds
mar 29, 2025, 11:44 pm • 0 0 • view
Weak leaders don’t dare firing people they know. COWARD
mar 29, 2025, 10:08 pm • 1 1 • view
putin not taking his calls on this one?
mar 29, 2025, 10:28 pm • 0 0 • view
mar 30, 2025, 2:55 am • 0 0 • view
America wants Trump and Musk arrested. What part of that don't you get?
mar 30, 2025, 12:41 am • 0 0 • view
The decisive business man whose motto of "you're fired" made him so famous that the people elected him president twice despite his incompetence, cannot decide if he should fire someone for putting a journalist in a group chat about a military strike straight on a 3rd party messaging server? Really!?
mar 29, 2025, 10:46 pm • 3 0 • view
mar 30, 2025, 9:41 pm • 0 0 • view
criminal trump say's its not woke but has been showing an over abundance of woke about the signal fuck up, its so shameful of him for not living down to its anti-wokeness it shows to others
mar 29, 2025, 10:35 pm • 0 0 • view
The guy can’t make a decent decision
mar 29, 2025, 10:05 pm • 3 0 • view
If Chump is asking around, he's gone. Bye Felicia 👋
mar 29, 2025, 10:24 pm • 0 0 • view
mar 30, 2025, 5:55 am • 2 0 • view
Walz screwed up setting up a not secure chat group but whiskey leaks Hegseth is the incompetent ass who shared confidential attack/war plans while rest of the intelligence apparatus cheered his details on with emojis Then they all lied about it to congress & attacked reporter 🤦 They ALL need to go
mar 30, 2025, 12:30 am • 8 0 • view
“Whiskey Leaks” 😂😂😂
mar 30, 2025, 2:39 am • 1 0 • view
If you have to do a survey to figure out if someone should be fired, you are not a leader — you are just a sad little man afraid of his own shadow!
mar 30, 2025, 1:18 pm • 1 0 • view
What shall we do with the drunken leader ,what shall we do with the drunken leader, what shall we do with the drunken leader early in the morning.
mar 30, 2025, 3:33 pm • 2 0 • view
NYT should change their motto: "Fascism Thrives from Fear".
mar 29, 2025, 11:29 pm • 0 0 • view
Please fire him and then do right by the American people for once in your life.
mar 30, 2025, 12:44 am • 0 0 • view
Hegseth is the one who put the classified info, he needs to go, now. They all do, but especially Hegseth
mar 29, 2025, 10:09 pm • 2 1 • view