Fox’s Will Cain Puzzled by Trump’s Personnel Shakeup: ‘It’s Hard To Make Complete Sense Of’

President Donald Trump triggered a fair amount of head-scratching on Thursday when he nominated Mike Waltz as U.N. ambassador almost immediately after firing him as national security advisor. Among the puzzled was Fox News’s Will Cain.

Waltz’s ouster was first reported by Mark Halperin and confirmed by CBS News. In March, Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg revealed that Waltz accidentally added him to a Signal group chat with more than a dozen administration officials. Subsequently, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth shared plans for forthcoming air strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen. Despite the security breach, Trump remained defiant, stating that Waltz and Hegseth were secure in their positions.

However, that was not the case with Waltz, who, the State Department’s spokesperson learned mid-briefing, that the former NatSec advisor had been nominated to join the department.

On Thursday’s edition of The Will Cain Show, the host tried to make sense of the shakeup with Senior White House Correspondent Peter Doocy.

“Peter, I’d love to try to read the tea leaves with you on what just happened today,” Cain said. “It’s hard to make complete sense of. As we started the morning, it appeared as though Mike Waltz had been fired. Now, it appears as though he’s been promoted from NSA to U.N. ambassador. But let’s ask this question, Peter. What happens to all the people that were working with Waltz?”

Cain noted that Waltz’s deputy, Alex Wong, had also been fired.

“Do they follow him over to his ambassadorship?” Cain asked.

“So, the way the National Security Council is set up at the White House, there are some people that are mainstays from administration to administration,” Doocy said. “That is how the White House national security apparatus works. But folks that were there, brought on by Mike Waltz about a hundred days ago, they would presumably would be out with him because we have also seen reporting that his top advisor is out with him.”

Doocy went on to say that while Trump appears to no longer want Waltz as national security advisor, the president “really likes Mike Waltz.”

“He was really having a hard time with some of the stories because he likes Mike so much,” Doocy said of Trump’s reaction to Waltz’s negative press in recent weeks.

Watch above via Fox News.