May 22, 2026 01:22 PM UTC

Ta Ta, Tulsi Gabbard

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• by: Colorado Pols

Axios with today’s Trump administration “Friday news dump,” as former Democratic Congresswoman-turned Hillary Clinton conspiracy theorist-turned Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is leaving her Cabinet post under a pretext that few inside the Beltway are taking seriously:

Driving the news: Gabbard wrote in her resignation letter that her departure is related to her husband’s diagnosis with an “extremely rare form of bone cancer.”

We naturally wish Gabbard’s husband well, but everybody knows there’s more to the story:

Between the lines: As a former Democrat and anti-interventionist in a wartime Republican administration, Gabbard had difficulty fitting into the administration and running the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

Last month, Gabbard narrowly survived getting fired by Trump, who was persuaded to hold off by their mutual friend, Roger Stone, a longtime outside adviser to the president.

Although President Donald Trump and Gabbard are each expressing love and respect for the other today, Gabbard’s frequent failures to back up Trump’s bellicose rhetoric on Iran had already reportedly knocked her out of Trump’s sycophantic inner circle. Trump has repeatedly publicly dismissed Gabbard’s assessments when they contradicted with his desired spin.

There are conflicting reports today whether this resignation was voluntary on Gabbard’s part or she was in fact forced out. Either way, nobody is buying the family health alibi. The irony is that Trump selected Gabbard to be DNI primarily because they allegedly shared an aversion to foreign military entanglements–an aversion Trump has cast aside in his second term faster than you can say “President of Peace.”

Gabbard becomes the fourth female Cabinet level official forced out of the Trump administration in the last few months, after the first year of Trump’s second term saw very little turnover–a sign that, at least for one gender, the boss’s desire to project indestructible confidence has dissipated with his tanking approval ratings.

As for Gabbard’s next move? There’s always her old friend Bernie Sanders!

They say the truth is stranger than fiction with people like Tulsi Gabbard in mind.