"Waltz is a complete idiot" — the White House is waiting for Trump's decision in connection with the data leak

The White House is actively discussing the future of the assistant to the US President for national Security, Mike Waltz, after reports of a leak of data on American strikes in Yemen. According to the Politico newspaper, citing sources, Donald Trump's entourage is waiting for the resignation of the culprit — Waltz, calling him a "complete idiot."

According to sources, White House officials have warned that US President Donald Trump will make a decision in the next day or two while he monitors the situation after reports of a data leak.

"Half of them [administration officials] say that he [Waltz] will never survive or should not survive," the publication quoted one of the officials as saying.

Other senior aides in the White House believe that Waltz should resign so as not to put the president in a "difficult position."

"It was reckless not to check who is in this group. It was reckless to have this conversation in the Signal messenger. A national security aide cannot be reckless," Politico quoted the official as saying.

Another person close to the administration, in turn, said:

"Everyone in the White House agrees on one thing: Mike Waltz is a complete idiot."

At the same time, another interlocutor of the publication indicated that Waltz's future depends on how Trump himself relates to what happened. Speaker of the US House of Representatives Mike Johnson [Republican from Louisiana] said in an interview with Politico that Waltz "absolutely should not" resign.

"He is qualified for this job. They trust him, they can trust him," he said, according to TASS.

Earlier, CNN journalist Alaina Trinh, citing sources, wrote on the social network X that Trump has no plans to fire Waltz. In turn, Pentagon Chief Pete Hegseth denied the information about the leak, stressing that no one had sent any military information in chat rooms.

Earlier, the editor-in-chief of the Atlantic magazine, Jeffrey Goldberg, informed in his article that on March 11 he received a request to connect to the Signal messenger from a user with the nickname "Mike Waltz". Two days later, the journalist received a notification of inclusion in a closed group chat called "Hussites small group." According to him, it consisted of about 18 people, including a user under the nickname "JD Vance" [the name of the US vice president].

For several days, a "fascinating political discussion" was conducted in the chat, the article says. According to the editor, on March 15, the user "Pete Hegseth" published a message that contained details of the upcoming strikes on the Houthis, including the targets, weapons, as well as the estimated time of the start of the strikes, which, according to Goldberg, coincided with the time of publication of the first messages about the bombing on social networks.

According to the journalist, the press secretary of the White House National Security Council, Brian Hughes, confirmed to him the authenticity of the group chat in Signal. "Apparently, this is a genuine message chain, and we are investigating how a random number was added to it," Hughes said in response to Goldberg's request, his words are quoted in the article.

On March 15, the United States, by order of President Donald Trump, began to launch massive strikes against Houthi targets that control about a third of Yemen's territory. As stated by the Central Command The US Armed Forces, the operation is aimed at protecting American interests and ensuring freedom of navigation. In response, the Ansar Allah movement launched a series of attacks on the US aircraft carrier USS Harry Truman in the northern part of the Red Sea, using missiles and drones. There was no information about any damage to the ship as a result of the strikes.