Trump ‘incensed’ over cabinet member’s unauthorized video calling out ‘warmongers’

President Donald Trump was reportedly “incensed” after one of his cabinet members released a provocative video on social media that he interpreted as lobbying him against involvement in the Israel-Iran conflict.

Last week, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard posted the video to her X account reflecting on her visit to Hiroshima, Japan and the horrors of nuclear war.

“This isn’t some made up science fiction story. This is the reality of what’s at stake, what we are facing right now. Because as we stand here today closer to the brink of nuclear annihilation than ever before, political elite and warmongers are carelessly fomenting fear and tensions between nuclear powers,” Gabbard says in the video.

“Trump saw the unauthorized video and became incensed, complaining to associates at the White House that she had spoken out of turn,” Politico reported, citing “three people familiar with the episode.”

The sources said Trump personally told Gabbard he did not approve of the unauthorized video.

“I don’t think he dislikes Tulsi as a person … But certainly the video made him not super hot on her … and he doesn’t like it when people are off message,” one of the sources told Politico.

The incident is not the only data point showing that Gabbard is losing favor with Trump.

When a reporter reminded Trump on Tuesday that Gabbard testified to Congress that the intelligence community did not believe Iran was close to building a nuclear weapon — contradicting claims from Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu –, Trump sided with Netanyahu instead of U.S. intelligence.

“I don’t care what she said. I think they were very close to having one,” Trump told reporters on Air Force One.

Meanwhile, Politico reported that Trump has been mulling eliminating Gabbard’s role for months.

“In the White House there have been discussions about folding its mandate into the CIA or another agency, according to one of the people familiar with his response to the video and two others familiar with the matter — though it’s unclear what that would mean for Gabbard,” the outlet reported.