Who is likely to replace Gabbard as DNI? Panel breaks down the significance of the position - MS NOW Reports

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Tulsi Gabbard is resigning as Director of National Intelligence due to her husband's battle with bone cancer. Trump announced on Truth Social that Aaron Lukas will serve as Acting DNI.

MS NOW Senior National Security Reporter David Rohde, Staff Writer at The Atlantic Tom Nichols and Chief Washington Correspondent at the MeidasTouch Scott MacFarlane join to discuss. - Aired on 05/22/2026.

[LuvLoogie]

1. Michael Flynn probably.

I mean, why not?

[Ocelot II]

2. Maybe Marco Rubio will add it to his portfolio.

If not, surely Trump will find the most incompetent, unqualified bozo he hasn't already hired. His replacements are always worse than the first ones.

[surfered]

3. Is Clarabell the Clown available?

[marble falls]

5. A spokesman for the reclusive Clarabell says that Clarabell does "not want his image sullied by ANY association ...

... implied or associated with any or in any part of the entire Trump family."

[surfered]

6. Perfect 😁

[marble falls]

4. Graham.

[lostincalifornia]

7. Mata Hari

[displacedvermoter]

8. Standing by my Flynn prediction from this afternoon

Spirochete One has talked about bringing back Flynn in some capacity for a while, and the traitorous former general has now been pardoned and indemnified and he's ready to pick up where Tulsi left off in selling us down the river.

Flynn could also, in an even scarier scenario, take NSA duties over from Rubio, who wears several of these security duty hats, none fitting him any better than his new Florsheims.

Or, a really bad idea that could happen, Kegsbreath is outed for drinking again, and so he gets canned, and Flynn takes over the Pentagon months, or days, before the November elections.

One of these three things I fear I see in the cards...

Anyone see similarities between Flynn and Aaron Burr, by the way?