Multiple reports are revealing that Mike Waltz is out as President Donald Trump’s national security adviser.
BREAKING: Mike Waltz out as Trump’s National Security Advisor. pic.twitter.com/g2vShxD44q
— Fox News (@FoxNews) May 1, 2025
#BREAKING: National Security Advisor Mike Waltz and his deputy Alex Wong are OUT, per FOX
pic.twitter.com/P719eQwtvS— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) May 1, 2025
BREAKING: President Trump’s national security adviser Mike Waltz and his deputy are leaving their posts, sources say. https://t.co/BLzmsS0VTh
— CBS News (@CBSNews) May 1, 2025
Fox News said its “sources” confirmed the staff change, and noted that the moves included “other staffers” as well, apparently to include Waltz’s deputy, Alex Wong.
Waltz previously was a Florida congressman and as a decorated combat Green Beret. He’s been under attack from Democrats and others since March over a situation in which a leftist magazine’s editor, Jeffrey Goldberg, was added to an online chat group, on the Signal platform, on which officials including Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and CIA Director John Ratcliffe were discussing strikes against Yemen terrorists.
The report said, “Waltz took responsibility for the inclusion of a journalist in the group chat, telling Fox News’ Laura Ingraham: ‘I take full responsibility. I built the group.’ It’s embarrassing. We’re going to get to the bottom of it.”
Trump earlier confirmed that other National Security Council staff members had been removed because of the issue involving Goldberg and his Atlantic publication.
White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt earlier said the administration had taken steps to make sure such a situation “obviously never happen again.”
