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US President Donald Trump said he intends to name a new national security advisor in the next six months.
The announcement comes after Trump has appointed his former advisor, Tim Waltz, as an ambassador of the United States to the United Nations last Friday.
During an exchange Sunday evening with journalists on board Air Force One, Trump said that he intends to name a new national security advisor “in about six months”.
The American president stressed that the appointment of Waltz Ambassador to the UN was a “promotion”. Tim Waltz was selected to occupy a “higher position,” said Trump, adding that this appointment “is a promotion”. “He goes to the United Nations for a reason. Personally, I think that (…) I would prefer this position to another,” he said.
Following the appointment of Waltz, Secretary of State Marco Rubio will assume, as an interim, the functions of national security advisor, “while continuing his strong leadership” at the head of American diplomacy, Trump said on Friday.
To recall that the tenant of the White House had asked, at the end of March, from the Congresswoman Elise Stefanik to withdraw her candidacy for the post of American ambassador to the United Nations. Trump, who named Stefanik in this position in early November, asked him to keep his post of deputy for the northern constituency of New York, in order to keep the narrow majority of the Republicans in the Lower Congress Chamber.
