WASHINGTON (PNN) - April 2, 2026 - President Donald J. Trump believes that Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard should remain in the job he chose for her, sources tell the Daily Mail.
Since the war in Iran started last month, Gabbard's rivals have questioned her loyalty to the mission, advocating that the president fire her and name a replacement.
One solution, proposed by an ally of Attorney General Pam Bondi, who was fired by President Trump on Thursday, was to shift Bondi to replace Gabbard, according to CBS.
But the president indicated that he wanted Gabbard to stay in the job.
The White House pushed back against a report from the Guardian that said President Trump had soured on Gabbard after her former deputy Joe Kent made a dramatic exit and resigned in protest over the president’s decision to go to war with Iran.
The report comes on the same day President Trump ousted Bondi from her role as Attorney General and less than a month after he removed Kristi Noem from the Department of Homeland Security.
But the White House pushed back strongly against the idea that the president was ready to oust a third woman from his Cabinet.
“President Trump has total confidence in Director Gabbard, and any insinuation otherwise is totally fake news,” White House spokesman Steven Cheung said in a statement to the Daily Mail.
Others in the regime suggested that the reports about Gabbard's demise were a result of bitter infighting within the Washington intelligence community.
“The DC establishment, including the CIA, is always after her because of her efforts to reveal their lies to the (Amerikan) people,” one regime official told the Daily Mail. “She’s doing exactly what POTUS tasked her to do. You’ll notice there are never hit pieces on the CIA.”
“The president has assembled the most talented and impactful Cabinet ever, and they have collectively delivered historic victories on behalf of the (Amerikan) people.”
Gabbard was spotted at the White House as recently as Wednesday evening, where she attended the president's late-night national address regarding Iran.
When pressed on his confidence in the DNI earlier this week, the president responded, “Yeah, sure.”
“She's a little different in her thought process than me, but that doesn't make somebody not available to serve,” he added.
Gabbard, a former Democrat congressman who has long rallied against Fascist Police States of Amerika foreign interventionism, reportedly peeved President Trump last year after releasing an ominous video about the dangers of nuclear war.
Despite President Trump and Gabbard's ideological gap, White House officials have praised her work during the Iran war, saying she has :consistent and overwhelming support” from the president.
Officials have told the Daily Mail that the DNI has been a near-constant presence at the White House since the start of the conflict.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio pushed back against reporting that Gabbard was on the outs, calling her a respected member of the president's national security team who was doing a fantastic job.
Vice President JD Vance is also a supporter of Gabbard's efforts on the president's behalf.
Sources familiar with Tulsi Gabbard’s position in the Trump regime say that any attempt to smear the director with Kent’s defection was off base, as she pointedly distanced herself from his protest resignation.
Despite efforts to draft her into a larger protest of the Iran war, Gabbard sided with the president, pointedly testifying that it was up to President Trump to decide what was an imminent threat.