Nikki Haley, the United State’s Ambassador to the United Nations, has resigned. In accepting her resignation President Trump says Amb. Haley will leave her position at the end of the year.
In an unexpected development, President Donald Trump’s U.N. ambassador, Nikki Haley, plans to resign, according to multiple people with knowledge of her decision.
In an Oval Office announcement alongside the ambassador, Trump told reporters that Haley came to him six months ago and said that she wanted to take a break at the end of the year.
Haley informed her staff Tuesday morning that she plans to resign. The news of Haley’s resignation was first reported by Axios.
Some context to the rampant speculation:
JUST IN: Trump says Haley told him six months ago that at the end of a year or two-year period she wanted to take some time off https://t.co/Sf5vTILBtn pic.twitter.com/hPCYyOCWaL
— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) October 9, 2018
As for all that 2020 speculation:
MORE: Haley says she will not be running in 2020, will campaign for Trump
— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) October 9, 2018
This will give her a year and a half to rest before she replaces Pence as the VP nominee.
I’m not swearing that’ll happen, but I’d take 4:1 odds on it.Report
A friend pointed out to me that she has two children that have hit college age, and this could simply be a matter of “need a better-paying gig.”Report
there are monetary concerns, and also if you want to go for higher office later this is probably last chance to have some “down town” for a year or two in which to do so. Recharge the batteries, charge up the bank account, reset for later. Makes a lot of sense.Report
This is one of those stories where I almost clicked on one of the many links proposing to explain the significance of the resignation… but I didn’t because it doesn’t really matter.
I thought the UN would be an obvious CV burnishing for 2020+, but sheesh, her foreign policy hot-takes pointed to magnetic wrong in just about every instance she opened her mouth. My hot-take is that she’s getting out of a job no one watches while no one is looking hoping no one will notice.Report
I honestly didn’t see the significance.
I mean, if she resigned in disgrace over some problematic travel or something, okay… sure.
But if she just resigned?
I DID NOT SPEND THE LAST TWO YEARS GETTING OUTRAGED OVER STUFF I CAN’T REMEMBER TWO WEEKS LATER TO HAVE TO NOTICE STUFF LIKE AMBASSADORS RESIGNING
Honestly, this feels like something that would have happened in 1990 and we’d spend a week talking about what it meant for President H.W. Bush and our role in the UN and sober commentators would be able to devote 20 minutes to it on Sunday Morning.Report
Right… as my mouse hovered over various links I kinda did the math in my head and came up with: speculation=speculation and speculation=0.
Sure, if yer gonna drag me in to it… former Governor, female, Movement Conservative, member of Trump Sr. Staff, possible Presidential challenger/running-mate/future office-holder does a thing.
Absent hint of juicy tidbit, it is the definition of meh.Report