CNN’s Ana Navarro skewered Donald Trump’s former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley for her politically handy relationship with the president-elect — who introduced Saturday that Haley gained’t have a place in his administration.
Navarro spoke out Monday on “Anderson Cooper 360” after former Fox Information host Gretchen Carlson speculated that Haley “was forced to endorse Trump” within the 2024 presidential elections so his “MAGA base” would help her personal White Home run in 2028.
“OK, Gretchen, Gretchen, Gretchen, Gretchen — she was not ‘forced’ to do anything,” Navarro broke in, per Mediaite. “She’s a grown-ass woman who chose to do this for her political ambitions.”
Trump posted on Fact Social over the weekend that Haley wouldn’t be invited to hitch his administration.
“I will not be inviting former Ambassador Nikki Haley, or former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, to join the Trump Administration, which is currently in formation,” he wrote. “I very much enjoyed and appreciated working with them previously.”
“Kamala Harris lost an election,” Navarro mentioned Monday. “Nikki Haley has lost every modicum of dignity, because after first criticizing him, then she took it back, then she ran against him, then she endorsed him, then she practically begged him to let her campaign with him.”
“And now he’s saying, ‘Bye, Felicia,’” she continued. “It truly is, I find it incredibly embarrassing — a woman who had such a bright future, was one of the rising stars in the Republican Party.”
Haley’s public stance on Trump has wavered repeatedly over the past eight years. She slammed his 2016 presidential marketing campaign, solely to settle for an ambassadorship in his administration the next yr. She resigned in 2018, solely to reward Trump’s presidency whereas selling her memoir.
The previous South Carolina governor then blamed Trump for the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, however later mentioned, “We need him in the Republican Party.” She ran in opposition to Trump within the 2024 election, solely to drop out and endorse him, presumably in hopes of a Cupboard place.
Haley responded Saturday to Trump’s Fact Social put up by wishing him “great success” in constructing “a stronger, safer America.”
Whereas some individuals interpreted Trump’s rejection of Haley and Pompeo as an announcement that he was purposely leaving neoconservatives out of his administration, these hopes had been shortly dashed on Monday.
Trump selected Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) as his U.N. ambassador and reportedly plans on naming Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) secretary of state. Each lawmakers have voiced a want to ramp up U.S. help for Israel’s bloody navy campaigns.
“The Pompeo & Haley thing seems to have been just a gimmick to throw red meat to Trump’s anti-NeoCon supporters,” one consumer wrote on X, previously Twitter. “Rubio … and Stefanik are all terrible choices, reminiscent of the awful picks Trump made in his first term.”
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The put up concluded: “Cheney might as well have endorsed Trump.”
