From the New York Times: “President Trump is ousting his national security adviser, Michael Waltz, and another senior member of the White House’s foreign policy team, the first significant personnel overhaul of top aides in his second term, according to people familiar with the situation. Mr. Waltz had been on thin ice since he organized a group chat on the commercial messaging app Signal to discuss a sensitive military operation in Yemen and accidentally included a journalist in the conversation.”
Readers will recall that Ethics Alarms issued several posts about the Signal chat debacle, the first of which , on March 24, ended thusly: “This will be an early test of how serious the new administration is about accountability. Someone’s head should roll for this.”
Someone’s head has. It was one of the right heads, too.
Trump’s action is absolutely the ethical and competent course, and should remind everyone, including the lackeys of the news media, that the previous administration didn’t care about accountability, nor competence, performance or merit—just “historic” DEI appointments who could never be fired. President Biden didn’t fire anyone, despite presiding over one of the most inept administrations in U.S. history.
Of course, Presidents are supposed to be demanding and to fire screw-ups, so Trump deserves no special credit for a decision that should have been as easy as it was necessary. Nevertheless, it’s gratifying to know the man in the White House is engaged and has standards he’s devoted to enforcing.
As for me, I’m just glad to get rid of Waltz because that “t” in his name kept making me misspell the last name of Governor Knucklehead in Minnesota.
Ethics Alarms 
“President Biden didn’t fire anyone, despite presiding over one of the most inept administrations in U.S. history.”
Did Biden disclaim the administration’s excess baggage (Sam Brinton) or was that the DoE?
PWS
Sam the Sham was too low level for Joe to fire, but as he was charged with a crime, he essentially fired himself.
I just saw a headline at “Just the News” (via their email newsletter) that President Trump was nominating Mike Waltz as US ambassador to the UN. The short version of the article (I was paywalled from the fuller version) cited the President’s “tweet” about this on Truth Social this morning. Hopefully Ambassador Waltz won’t be organizing Signal chats!Sincerely,Catherine McClarey
Ah, so not just fired, but exiled.
/sarcasm
Excess Baggage, indeed. I see what you did there.
Huh?
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-announces-mike-waltz-un-ambassador-pick
Is that accountability?
-Jut
Ugh.
Well, sure: he was fired, and ambassador to the UN these days is a consolation prize anyway. Not like in the days of Henry Cabot Lodge, Adlai Stevenson or even Shirley Temple Black. It’s definitely a demotion.
I would have thought by now that everyone knew of Trump’s reputation for firing those who underperform or repeatedly screw up.
“President Biden didn’t fire anyone, despite presiding over one of the most inept administrations in U.S. history.”
Biden didn’t fire anyone because he wasn’t permitted to. That authority was reserved for those who were actually running the country.
Ah. You’ve misunderstood how this works.
When Republican presidents fire their personnel it’s because the administration incompetent and in perpetual turmoil; when Democrat presidents fire their personnel it’s because the administration understand accountability and proper management of an organization.
Hope that helps.
The possibility exists that Wong who was also fired may have been the person who put Goldberg on the list. Firing him (Wong) alone would reek of scapegoating so keeping Walz in another role minimizes the progressives desire for scalps and still invokes some punitive action for not catching the fact that a subordinate included Goldberg.