Full Transcript: Trump Announces Nikki Haley’s Resignation
On Tuesday, President Donald Trump announced the resignation of Nikki Haley from her position as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. During remarks in the Oval Office, Trump lauded Haley’s work. “She’s done a fantastic job, and we have done a fantastic job together,” he said. Haley’s resignation came as a surprise to many observers, including Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and National-Security Adviser John Bolton, according to CNN. Haley thanked the president in her remarks, calling her time as ambassador “an honor of a lifetime.”
Below, a transcript of Trump’s and Haley’s remarks, as delivered.
President Trump: Before we begin, I’ll just say that we’re very well prepared for the incoming hurricane. We have another one coming, so we have done very well. North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, Florida, Puerto Rico—so many places. And we have another one coming, and a big one. Much bigger than they anticipated a week ago. Seven days ago. I heard for the first time there was a very small drop of weather that looked like it was forming, and now it’s pretty close to a category 3, but it’s not already a category 3. So we’re well prepared. FEMA is ready, we’re all ready. I spoke with Governor Scott, spoke to everybody that you have to speak to. And I think that hopefully we’ll get lucky, but maybe that won’t happened. But we’re prepared.
I wanted to do this because Nikki Haley, ambassador to the United Nations, has been very special to me. She’s done an incredible job. She’s a fantastic person, very importantly, but she also is somebody that gets it. She has been at the United Nations from the beginning with us. Right from the beginning, and worked with us on the campaign. It’s been really a long time, very intense, and she told me probably six months ago, she said, you know, maybe at the end of the year—at the end of the two-year period, but at the end of the year, I want to take a little time off. I want to take a little break. She’s been a very successful, as you know, governor of South Carolina, for eight
