President Donald Trump’s nationwide safety adviser, Mike Waltz, and his deputy, Alex Wong, are leaving their posts, simply weeks after the Signalgate scandal, based on experiences.
Their departures mark the primary main exits from the Trump administration, simply days after the president marked 100 days in workplace.
Last night, former vice chairman Kamala Harris has mercilessly rebuked the president in her first extensive remarks since leaving Washington, D.C., in January, saying his tariff-based trade war was inviting recession and amounted to the “best man-made financial disaster in fashionable presidential historical past.”
Harris, the defeated Democratic nominee in final 12 months’s presidential election, spoke in San Francisco on the twentieth anniversary gala for Emerge America, a corporation that helps left-leaning ladies for public workplace.
“I do know tonight’s occasion occurs to coincide with the 100 days after the inauguration, and I’ll go away it to others to provide a full accounting of what has occurred up to now,” Harris mentioned on the Palace Lodge gala.
“However I’ll say this, as an alternative of an administration working to advance America’s highest beliefs, we’re witnessing the wholesale abandonment of these beliefs.”
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Oliver O’Connell1 Might 2025 16:24
State Dept spokesperson defers to White Home on Waltz
State Division spokesperson Tammy Bruce appeared on Fox Information shortly after the information of Mike Waltz’s obvious exit from the administration broke.
Requested about it, Bruce mentioned the president remained dedicated to diplomacy around the globe and remained “hands-on” at each division.
She added: “So I don’t – I gained’t get forward of what the president could or could not say later as we speak. This can be a White Home framework. What I do know is that the expertise bench on this nation and for this authorities is deep. And that, in fact, this is also day by day we see on this a centesimal day anniversary week, if you’ll, that the president is engaged in each side of the nation. And the alternatives he makes shifting ahead might be as common glorious and might be in the very best pursuits of the American folks.”
Oliver O’Connell1 Might 2025 16:19
With clients frightened of recession, McDonald’s sees its greatest gross sales drop because the pandemic
The quick meals chain’s U.S. gross sales shrank 3.6 p.c, the worst drop because the second quarter of 2020, as the corporate acknowledged clients are “grappling with uncertainty.”
Rhian Lubin has the story.
Oliver O’Connell1 Might 2025 16:15
Flustered Fox Information host fluffs Mike Waltz identify, twice
Fox Information anchor Invoice Hemmer is so flustered by the information that Michael Waltz is out as NSA that he retains referring to him as Michael Flynn: “Flynn works within the West Wing. I am sorry, Michael Waltz works within the West Wing… It is a robust job, however Flynn proper now’s the primary to go on Day 102.”
— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona.bsky.social) May 1, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Oliver O’Connell1 Might 2025 16:09
Others could go away posts too, report says
Fox Information moreover experiences that different names might also be leaving their posts along with Mike Waltz and Alex Wong.
President Donald Trump is anticipated to say one thing quickly.
Oliver O’Connell1 Might 2025 16:02
BREAKING: NSA Waltz and deputy leaving posts, report says
CBS Information experiences that Nationwide Safety Adviser Mike Waltz and his deputy, Alex Wong, might be leaving their posts, citing a number of sources accustomed to the scenario.
Rhian Lubin is monitoring this growing story:
Oliver O’Connell1 Might 2025 15:54
As White Home deflects from dangerous financial information, Stephen Miller claims Trump ‘has actually saved America’
Andrew Feinberg experiences from Washington D.C.:
The White Home continued efforts to energy previous dismal financial indicators and discontent with President Donald Trump’s unprovoked commerce conflict by touting their very own story of Trump’s accomplishments over his first 100 days in workplace, with Deputy Chief of Workers for Coverage Stephen Miller making a bombastic look at a Friday press briefing, ostensibly to debate the work executed by the administration’s “Division of Authorities Effectivity.”
As an alternative, Miller ended up partaking in a testy back-and-forth with a number of members of the White Home press corps on a variety of topics unrelated to the Elon Musk-led effectivity effort, usually selecting to deflect and assault relatively than have interaction.
Oliver O’Connell1 Might 2025 15:49
Trump applauds ‘particular man’ Steve Doocy as emotional Fox & Buddies veteran quits the curvy sofa
President Donald Trump recorded a particular message for one of many unique hosts of his favourite morning discuss present on Thursday, letting Steve Doocy know that he’s a “particular man” and wished to congratulate the Fox & Friends stalwart on his “new and possibly enhanced function.”
Justin Baragona has the story.
Oliver O’Connell1 Might 2025 15:42
IN FOCUS: Trump’s ‘honeymoon’ is assembly actual resistance. Can he survive the blowback?
Alex Woodward experiences on how the president’s agenda faces highly effective public opposition in courtroom, within the polls, and within the economic system after simply 100 days in workplace.
Oliver O’Connell1 Might 2025 15:30
COMMENT: Trump ought to have discovered the teachings of Brexit
Throughout one among Donald Trump’s embarrassing televised conferences, during which cupboard members are invited to outdo each other of their deranged, fawning, sycophantic reward of the tangerine Expensive Chief, one reporter lobbied the president concerning the US economy shrinking within the first quarter of the 12 months.
Trump defined that he’d solely been in cost for a few months, so can’t be blamed for anything, actually – least of all a US economic system that shrank 0.3 per cent within the first quarter of the 12 months, the primary drop in three years.
Donald Trump should have learned the lessons of Brexit
The sharp downturn in US development that the president has tried – and failed – to pin on his predecessor might have been averted had he paid extra consideration to the UK’s misfortunes since leaving the European Union, says Sean O’Grady
Oliver O’Connell1 Might 2025 15:19
