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President Donald Trump said Thursday that he would nominate national security adviser Mike Waltz to be the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.

"From his time in uniform on the battlefield, in Congress and, as my National Security Advisor, Mike Waltz has worked hard to put our Nation’s Interests first. I know he will do the same in his new role," Trump said in a post on Truth Social.

Trump said Secretary of State Marco Rubio would act as "interim" national security adviser.

Waltz, a former Florida congressman, has been on shaky ground with Trump since March after he inadvertently added a journalist to a private chat on the messaging app Signal with other top national security officials to discuss military strikes in Yemen. Three sources with knowledge had said earlier Thursday that Waltz and deputy national security adviser Alex Wong were expected to leave the administration.

White House officials declined to comment when asked about the expected departure of Waltz and Wong.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said Waltz deserved to lose his job, and called for Hegseth, who discussed details about the attack in the Signal chat, to be the next to go.

Look, they should fire him, but they’re firing the wrong guy. They should be firing Hegseth,” Schumer said.

Waltz paid tribute to Trump at a Cabinet meeting on Wednesday.

US President Donald Trump was angered by his recently ousted national security adviser Mike Waltz’s hawkish position on Iran and coordination with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on military options to destroy Tehran’s nuclear program, contributing to his dismissal last week, according to a Saturday report.

Citing senior officials and Trump advisers, the Washington Post reported that Trump’s frustration with Waltz grew over time ahead of his firing.

According to the report, Trump’s displeasure with Waltz came even before the “Signalgate” affair, in which he was blamed for accidentally adding the editor of The Atlantic to a group chat on the Signal messaging app describing details of an imminent US bombing campaign in Yemen.

The report said he clashed with White House officials “since early in the administration,” specifically over his preference for using military force against Iran instead of the diplomatic route that Trump favored.

Two of the people quoted by the Washington Post said that Waltz upset the US president by engaging in what the report described as “intense coordination” with Netanyahu on possible military options for Iran, prior to the premier’s White House meeting with Trump in February.

According to a report published Friday, the new deal being negotiated is largely similar to the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), which was negotiated under Barak Obama’s administration and was scrapped by Trump in 2018 during his first term, eight sources said.

The report said that the Trump administration is looking to ensure that Tehran does not develop nuclear weapons, not completely dismantle all aspects of Iran’s nuclear program.