There’s something about this story, being widely reported today, that doesn’t pass the smell test.
President Donald Trump reportedly fired three pro-war neocons on his National Security Council shortly after he met with Laura Loomer in the Oval Office.
The president met Wednesday with Loomer, a conservative social-media influencer with an unconventional style. Loomer has publicly accused Trump administration staffers of disloyalty and said there have been vetting failures at the NSC and elsewhere through various posts on X.
Let’s break this story down and point out a few oddities.
The New York Times reported Loomer discussed NSC staffers she said were disloyal and whose loyalties lie firmly in the camp of Washington’s neoconservative war hawks. National Security Adviser Mike Waltz (pictured above with Trump) was reportedly present at the meeting along with Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
Journalist and author Glenn Greenwald posted to X:
“Wild: Laura Loomer got Trump to fire 3 pro-war members of the National Security Council: Daniel Feith, son of the Bush/Cheney über-neocon Douglas Feith; a long-time top foreign policy advisor to Marco Rubio, and another top adviser to Mike Waltz.”
Axios reported that three senior NSC officials were fired after the Loomer meeting at the White House. The firings came a week after the Signal group chat leak, in which the Atlantic’s editor-in-chief was added to a group chat with Waltz and other national security officials by Waltz’s staff.
Loomer began posting about alleged vetting failures after the Signal group chat leak and offered to vet staffers for the Trump administration.
This is an interesting development, because the biggest neocon warmonger of all is Mike Waltz, the head of Trump’s NSC. Waltz has a long record of voting to fund endless wars overseas during his tenure in Congress.
What I don’t understand is why Trump would care. He loaded up his first administration with neocons, and he placed several in key positions in his second term, like Marco Rubio and Waltz. He even employed the king of neoconservatism, John Bolton, for a time in his first administration. Suddenly, we are supposed to believe Trump is listening to someone like Laura Loomer and embarking on a purge of neocons from his administration?
It’s hard for me to believe Trump did not know that Waltz, Rubio, Feith and the others were neocons. Just a few days ago, Trump gave his enthusiastic endorsement to the most notorious neocon of all, South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham, in Graham’s 2026 Senate race.
And since when does Trump, or any president, meet with a social media influencer for advice, and then do what the influencer tells him? Correct me if I’m wrong, but I’ve never seen that happen before, at least not in a widely reported story.
This story doesn’t add up.
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Leo – And since when does Trump, or any president, meet with a social media influencer for advice, and then do what the influencer tells him?
For his second term, Trump seems to have sought some people who are personalities popular with MAGA and other conservatives, but who are outside the traditional Republican establishment.
That includes not just influencer Loomer for her advice, but tech genius Musk, Fox News hosts Hegseth and Bongino, and a former-Democrat-now-Independent Robert Kennedy, Jr. for positions in his admin.
He has said recently that he likes really smart people. Maybe he feels a need for an eclectic group of people, and has reached out beyond the swamp in some instances, perhaps because he was so stymied by RINOs during his first admin.
Admittedly, it’s hard to discern the reasons for some of his decisions, many of which are totally surprising. But he’s got a lot of people advising him. Some good, others not so good.
He’s made great decisions about
1) removing the U.S. out of globalist groups like the WHO, UN Human Rights Council, Paris Climate Agreement, and possibly UNESCO,
2) securing our borders,
3) deporting the most dangerous illegals or foreign nationals like Latin American gang members, convicted criminals, and Hamas supporters,
4) ridding the nation of DEI, CRT and the transgender curriculum,
5) forcing colleges to confront campus antisemitism,
6) investigating and exposing government graft through money laundering rackets like USAID and stopping the flow to leftist and terrorist recipients,
7) issuing tariffs to address the financial exploitation of America by other countries and to lure U.S. corporations and manufacturers back,
8) negotiating to help end the Ukraine war.
There are more, but those are the biggest ones.
His talk about annexing Greenland, Canada, the Panama Canal and joining the British Commonwealth are all totally out of the blue and truly puzzling. Whether he’s just trolling as the Disrupter-In-Chief and enjoys keeping everyone guessing, I don’t know.
One thing I do know – he inherited an awful mess from Biden/Obama and has much to do to heal the wounds in our Republic. On top of that, he’s facing considerable obstacles with all the Democrat judicial thugs issuing injunctions at every step of the way. The sheer number of these actions is truly staggering. In the almost 3 months he’s been in office, there have been 178 cases filed so far with only 4 closed.
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Sheldon Adelson, Jewish billionaire casino owner, complained after donating 100 million to the Republican party, that Trump was not hiring anybody he (Adelson) recommended.
That’s when Trump added John Bolton.
Trump boxed Bolton in and never took his advise. Afterwards Trump ridiculed Bolton as an “idiot” who wanted to bomb everybody, but said Bolton was useful. When negotiating with foreign entities he would threaten to turn the negotiation over to John Bolton if there was no progress.
Trump recently removed Bolton’s secret service protection.
Mike Waltz has an impressive resume. I heard him give a speech at a Trump rally in 2020. He sounded great but appeared to be captured by AIPAC.
The politician, Randy Fine, who just replaced Waltz in FL district 6 is unbelievably worse than Waltz.
Florida governor Ron DeSantis just came out publicly today 4-4-25 roasting Fine as bad on every conservative position in FL including the second amendment and immigration.
Randy Fine as state representative in FL bragged about secretly flying to Israel to be present when gov Ron DeSantis signed Florida’s first hate speech bill in Israel.
Insiders claim DeSantis didn’t want to sign the clearly unconditional bill but was ambushed by Randy Fine and another FL rep in Israel with Netanyahu.
DeSantis complained about the ambush in private. Randy Fine then labeled DeSantis an antisemite and switched his support to Trump in the 2024 Republican primary.
Randy Fine has a 30 million dollar fortune from his work in the gambling industry. He is rabidly Israel first. He’s Jewish so should obviously support Israel but not over America.
One can’t help but wonder who does Mike Waltz owe his loyalty to AIPAC or the citizens of Florida.
In every photo he looks totally out of his league. Like a dear caught in the headlights.
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You right Leo. I don’t see the technocrats going anyway either. I doubt they will stop their wickedness until every living creature is hooked into “the internet of things.”
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As always, Leo, thank you for your insight with this story.
I don’t know much about Ms. Loomer, but there’s something ironic (or not) about her meeting with POTUS, et al, and the rapid announcement of the firings directly following. I’m inclined to think, “follow the money”, because in most all cases, this is what it all comes down to.
And, we all know what a lackey neocon Lindsey Gramnesty is. He’s a few sandwiches short of a picnic in a number of ways me thinks…..
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