And so it was on Friday. As the sun moved over the yardarm, reports started dribbling out of the White House indicating that a massacre was taking place within Donald Trump’s National Security Council. About half of the NSC’s 350 staff was shown the door.
From the President, the message was clear as a bell. “We’re gutting the deep state,” one White House insider told the website Axios, describing the NSC as “ultimate deep state”. Secretary of State Marco Rubio put things more subtly, issuing a statement that announced “the right-sizing” of the NSC, and arguing its total overhaul was designed as a course-correction so that it might serve “its original purpose and the President’s vision”.
For the past 78 years, the NSC provided 14 separate presidents with the information they need to make carefully-calibrated decisions.
In October 1962, the NSC played a critical role assisting president John F Kennedy to defuse the Cuban missile crisis. The official White House history of that crisis credits national security adviser George Bundy with “being scrupulously fair” in presenting opinions of the NSC to the president. “Even when they conflicted with his own…Bundy’s influence was oblique rather than direct,” it notes.
The National Security Council served 14 presidents including John F Kennedy during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis (Photo: Corbis/Getty)Three weeks later, the President’s hand-picked national security adviser Mike Waltz walked the plank. His ouster followed the revelation that along with other top officials, he had engaged in a group chat on the messaging app Signal to discuss highly secret plans to attack Houthi positions in Yemen. The discussions were observed by Washington journalist Jeffrey Goldberg, who was inadvertently invited to join the chat and secured a worldwide scoop as a result.
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The effects are expected to be immediate. Peace in Ukraine will be hard to deliver, in a world in which Trump has demonstrated little personal attention to detail, and the NSC no longer provides an academic counterpoint to his pro-Putin sympathies.
Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth, a former Fox News host with no previous experience crafting policy, will also now operate without access to significant NSC advice.
Like so much else in 2025, American foreign policy is now becoming a one-man show.
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