Trump is 'losing confidence' in Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard as he mulls removing her entire office
Source: The Independent
Wednesday 18 June 2025 08:09 EDT
As he weighs joining Israels 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 just been kind of down on her in general of late.
The president was recently incensed, according to Politico, by Gabbards decision to post a three-minute video on X in the early hours of June 10 in which she warned that political elite and warmongers are carelessly fomenting fear and tensions between nuclear powers, placing the world on the brink of nuclear annihilation.
Trump is said to have been angered by the video, accusing Gabbard of going off-message 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 partys presidential nomination, doesnt add anything to any conversation.
Read more: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-tulsi-gabbard-israel-iran-b2772131.html
Full headline: Trump is losing confidence in Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard as he mulls removing her entire office, senior official says

FalloutShelter
(13,837 posts)


Attilatheblond
(7,349 posts)Why have the expense of her office/direct support staff if he refuses to pay attention. Save money and have the 'spooks' report directly to Senate & House INTEL committees?
FalloutShelter
(13,837 posts)And would compromise security by expanding the circle of trust. So
Third base.
thought crime
(812 posts)Bad publicity is the greatest sin. She lost a lot of points.
Attilatheblond
(7,349 posts)Trump shouldn't get all huffy. Everybody knows he doesn't read and can't follow a conversation where he's not the one talking.
Ocelot II
(127,484 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(129,173 posts)BOSSHOG
(43,750 posts)Trump responds, who?
Hugin
(36,911 posts)Hes sunken so far in his cushion we can barely see him now.
Jerry2144
(2,997 posts)The Oval Office of Stupidity
Simply off shore our entire Intelligence Community to Putin.........he would be overjoyed to help Trump out by being in charge of all our Intelligence, instead of just receiving all of it thru back channels directly from Trump already.........
Irish_Dem
(75,585 posts)spudspud
(613 posts)DavidDvorkin
(20,368 posts)RockRaven
(18,091 posts)unqualified she was... ignoring that he was the one that insisted on hiring her despite so many people telling him he shouldn't.
ck4829
(37,125 posts)Irish_Dem
(75,585 posts)Russia and Iran are allies. Iran is helping Putin with the Ukraine war.
BumRushDaShow
(160,927 posts)that Russia could be using against Ukraine.
Irish_Dem
(75,585 posts)He needs everyone to leave Iran alone.
DENVERPOPS
(13,003 posts)Putin doesn't have time to be worrying about one of his best buddy's there................he is busy amassing his military on Finlands Border, much like he did in Ukraine before invading it.....
Irish_Dem
(75,585 posts)And critical to his war effort.
DENVERPOPS
(13,003 posts)but I thought India was making a lot of them for him also???????/
Prairie Gates
(6,367 posts)
Irish_Dem
(75,585 posts)Prairie Gates
(6,367 posts)The hardcore Putinites of the MAGAs
Irish_Dem
(75,585 posts)All the ones protecting Iran.
speak easy
(12,398 posts)MadameButterfly
(3,589 posts)Martin Eden
(14,893 posts)He wants his Gaza Riviera Trump resort.
Irish_Dem
(75,585 posts)Bibi gave him a better deal that Putie.
harun
(11,378 posts)snot
(11,307 posts)for integrity.
Prairie Gates
(6,367 posts)
To be fair, she squeaked by 52-48 so the Senate didn't have much confidence in her either.
Cha
(314,663 posts)and posted on X. Oops.
Publicly called out the Traitor Troll?! Isn't that the Putin line, too? leave Iran Alone?
Whoa.. TY, BRDS
Renew Deal
(84,513 posts)ancianita
(42,027 posts)UTUSN
(75,852 posts)RainCaster
(13,138 posts)Yup
MorbidButterflyTat
(3,722 posts)he'd have to be capable of recognizing it.
VanceFan
(95 posts)Gabbard is a nut job, just like everyone of Dipshit Donald's cabinet.
jmowreader
(52,683 posts)I can imagine what the problem is: after she revealed she was making Fox News-style videos to get him to sit through the President's Daily Briefing he started making plans to get rid of her. "No one is going to make me look like an idiot!" Well...except himself.
MorbidButterflyTat
(3,722 posts)the way insanity is presented as reasonable.
"As he weighs joining Israels war against Iran..."
Disgusting.
Skittles
(167,767 posts)the whitewashing of this fucking insanity NEVER FUCKING ENDS
I know it has become a cliche but IMAGINE ANY DEMOCRAT BEHAVING LIKE THIS
LudwigPastorius
(13,496 posts)How else is Trump going to get his catastrophic terrorist attack that will catapult him into a position of President for Life?
comradebillyboy
(10,866 posts)well that would be the first smart move he's made since the election.
Hillary was 100% right about Tulsi. But Hillary was 100% right about everything.
Skittles
(167,767 posts)
John1956PA
(4,496 posts)At the time of her video posting, news outlets featured photos of her which displayed that grey streak of hair which somehow struck me as having a chilling connection to the Hiroshima legacy. It could be that she was being theatric.
NBachers
(18,921 posts)If that makes me a Putin lackey, so be it.
at 2:06, you'll see the Golden Gate Bridge obliterated, and see a map of San Francisco. Since I live here, it's of interest to me.
Balatro
(51 posts)I never liked her and she deserves to be treated like this. Unfortunately, she has no capacity to learn.
OldBaldy1701E
(9,154 posts)Oh, so now you see what your base is going through?
(Anyone with a brain had no confidence in that orange gibbon to begin with, so this does not apply to us.)
mdbl
(7,459 posts)
turbinetree
(26,601 posts)to send our bombers into Iran............I need to act like the little dick that I am ...............heh that's not in the script lets me try it again............how's my make-up............time for some more tax payer funded golf.............we will talk later Tulsi...............see ya...........
Sparkly
(24,754 posts)What does she want to happen, exactly, regarding Iran and any nuclear potential it has? Or if this isn't about Iran, what is it about?
travelingthrulife
(3,370 posts)Rhetorical question, of course.
Turbineguy
(39,442 posts)Norrrm
(3,054 posts)To Trump, loyalty is one way, incoming.
riversedge
(78,029 posts)Trump May Punish Tulsi For Contradicting Him By Cutting Her Job
Oh, she thought she was supposed to give advice? Based on FACTS? Ha, ha!
https://crooksandliars.com/2025/06/trump-may-punish-tulsi-contradicting-him
By Susie Madrak June 19, 2025
We all know how Trump hates being contradicted in public, and his solution for Tulsi Gabbard actually doing her job and telling him Iran did not have nuclear weapons? Get rid of her office! Via the Independent:
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He has also reportedly been considering the idea of closing Gabbards office and integrating its responsibilities into the CIAs 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 forever wars, 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.
Link to tweet
Kid Berwyn
(22,026 posts)Obviously obvious.
Quanto Magnus
(1,259 posts)that's all this is. Pooty Poot won't let him fire Gabbard.
DSandra
(1,681 posts)She has no loyalties (maybe only to Putin.)