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Trump âjust kind of down on Tulsi Gabbard in general,â senior official says
President reportedly angered by intelligence chiefâ??s social media warning against â??warmongersâ?? placing the world â??on the brink of nuclear annihilationâ??
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As he weighs joining Israelâs war against Iran, President Donald Trump reportedly finds himself at odds with his Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, with one White House official saying that he has âjust been kind of down on her in generalâ of late.
The president was recently incensed, according to Politico, by Gabbardâs decision to post a three-minute video on X in the early hours of June 10 in which she warned that âpolitical elite and warmongersâ are âcarelessly fomenting fear and tensions between nuclear powers,â placing the world âon the brink of nuclear annihilation.â
Trump is said to have been angered by the video, accusing Gabbard of going âoff-messageâ and rebuking her for it in person.
One of the senior administration officials, quoted anonymously by Politico, said there is a growing perception within the West Wing that the former Hawaii Democratic congresswoman, who once ran for that partyâs presidential nomination, âdoesnât add anything to any conversation.â
âI donât think [Trump] dislikes Tulsi as a person,â said another. âBut certainly the video made him not super hot on her⦠and he doesnât like it when people are off message.â They added that âmany took that video as trying to correct the administrationâs position.â
Donald Trump and Tulsi Gabbard on the campaign trail in La Crosse, Wisconsin, last August ( AFP/Getty)The presidentâs souring on Gabbard emerged in public view on Tuesday when a reporter aboard Air Force One asked him about comments his intelligence chief had made before Congress in March in which she noted that, although Iranâs enriched uranium levels were at an all-time high, the expert opinion was that Tehran was not currently seeking to develop a nuclear bomb.
âI donât care what she said,â Trump hit back. âI think they were very close to having a weapon.â
He has also reportedly been considering the idea of closing Gabbardâs office and integrating its responsibilities into the CIAâs leadership infrastructure. However, this could have a significant impact on oversight of the U.S. intelligence community and affect how information is relayed to the commander-in-chief.
Gabbard, who has previously stirred controversy by entertaining conspiracy theories regarding the wars in Ukraine and Syria, has long been an advocate of keeping the U.S. out of âforever wars,â a position Trump himself has taken in the past, and earlier this year visited Hiroshima in Japan to see the site devastated by an American nuclear blast at the close of the Second World War, a trip the White House questioned.
In opposing U.S. involvement with Benjamin Netanyahuâs Operation Rising Lion, the intelligence director is by no means alone among Trumpâs MAGA movement, with leading voices such as Tucker Carlson speaking out and Marjorie Taylor Greene warning that interventionism only serves to âput America last, kill innocent people, [is] making us broke, and will ultimately lead to our destruction.â
Trump and Gabbard embrace at a presidential rally in Greensboro, North Carolina, in October ( Anna Moneymaker/Getty)Other conservative pundits, such as Mark Levin and the estranged former Trump official John Bolton, have criticized Gabbard; however, even supporters like Carlson have claimed that she is being excluded from decision-making.
The latter told Steve Bannon on his War Room podcast on Monday that the reason she had not been invited to a pivotal conference on the Israel-Iran conflict at Camp David recently was because âThis is a regime change effort,â hinting that she could soon be fired.
White House spokesperson Steven Cheung has denied that, however, insisting the president âhas full confidence in his entire exceptional national security teamâ and that âefforts by the legacy media to sow internal division are a distraction that will not work.â
Vice President JD Vanceâs team has also defended Gabbard as âan essential memberâ of the team. âTulsi Gabbard is a veteran, a patriot, a loyal supporter of President Trump, and a critical part of the coalition he built in 2024,â they said.
Gabbard has already hinted that, should she be dismissed, her future political ambitions might lie elsewhere.
She declined to rule out another run for the presidency during an appearance on Megyn Kellyâs podcast last month, commenting, âI will never rule out any opportunity to serve my country.â
