Former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley stated Wednesday that President-elect Trump knew she didn’t need to serve in his second administration when he publicly introduced over the weekend that he wouldn’t offer her a job.
“I will not be inviting former Ambassador Nikki Haley, or former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, to join the Trump Administration, which is currently in formation,” Trump wrote Saturday on Fact Social. “I very much enjoyed and appreciated working with them previously, and would like to thank them for their service to our Country. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
Haley dismissed Trump’s snub throughout her SiriusXM present, “Nikki Haley Live.”
“I had no interest in being in his Cabinet. He knew that,” she stated, later including, “I have made it clear to everyone that I was not interested in the administration.”
Haley stated her husband and son “were upset” by Trump’s put up and requested why she did not reply publicly that she wasn’t ready. As a substitute, she responded to the put up by wishing the president-elect properly.
“And the truth is, I know the game he was playing. I don’t need to play that game,” Haley defined on her present. “But more importantly, we have to look at the bigger picture. It is time to move on.”
“The American folks have spoken and spoken very loudly, and at this level, we must always pray that President Trump does properly. We should always pray that everybody that he appoints does properly,” she continued. “We should always hope for the sake of our children and generations to comply with us, that each one of this goes ahead.”
She added that the put up was according to Trump’s character.
“Do I take it personally? No. That’s who he is,” Haley stated. “He can be shallow at times, and I think he showed that. But I don’t have to be shallow. And at the end of the day, I’m very comfortable with where I am, and I’m comfortable with what happened.”
Haley served within the first Trump administration after which confronted off in opposition to the president-elect in what turned a bitter 2024 GOP major face-off, with Haley outlasting all the challengers. She lastly bowed out of the race, clearing the way in which for Trump to clinch the GOP nomination.
The previous U.N. ambassador endorsed him months later. She didn’t, nonetheless, stroll again any of her public criticism of him, as a substitute leaning on the argument that “Trump is clearly the better choice.”
Haley, on her present Wednesday, described a few moments when she made it clear to Trump’s inside circle that she was not focused on a White Home put up.
She stated she and her husband had been visited in South Carolina by Trump’s shut confidant, Steve Witkoff, who “basically wanted a truce between me and Donald Trump.”
“And I told him at the time, there was no truce needed,” Haley stated, “that Trump had my support, there was no issue on my end. And at that point, he was like, ‘What do you want? Tell me what you want. Is there anything you want?’ And I said, ‘There’s nothing I want.’ And there wasn’t anything I wanted.”
She recalled one other second a number of weeks in the past, when Trump’s transition co-chair, Howard Lutnick, requested “if I knew of people that would be good in the Cabinet, if there was any insight.”
Haley stated she gave a pair ideas, “But I did not ask anything for me.”
“What I stated is, I believe it is actually necessary that Trump encompass himself with folks which might be going to inform him the reality,” she added. “And I, you realize, talked about somebody that I believed could be good for Commerce secretary and talked about that I believed the U.N. ambassador must be a Cupboard decide.”
