Trump Accidentally Called Former National Security Adviser He Fired: Report
President Donald Trump last month accidentally called his former national security adviser, whom he had fired in his first term.
On March 3, Trump attempted to call South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster (R) when he or an aide instead dialed the personal number of Trump’s former national security adviser, Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, according to a new report from CBS News.
Trump referred to H.R. McMaster ― who goes by Herbert ― as Henry on the phone before launching into a conversation not meant for the former adviser.
“Mr. President, this is H.R. McMaster,” he reportedly told Trump before the president responded with an expletive.
“Why the fuck would I talk [to H.R. McMaster?]” Trump said after realizing the mistake, multiple sources told CBS News.

Trump fired McMaster during his first term in 2018, saying in a tweet at the time that McMaster “will always remain my friend.”
But since then, McMaster has been a vocal critic of the president, calling him an “extremely disruptive person” and criticizing Trump’s relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
A day before the mistaken phone call, Trump lambasted McMaster on social media as a “weak and totally ineffective loser” after the former adviser questioned Trump’s motives with the Russian leader in an interview with “60 Minutes.”
White House communications director Steven Cheung told CBS News McMaster has “beclowned himself.”
“H.R. McMaster has completely beclowned himself and his third-rate book, which is now sold in the bargain bin of the fiction section of a discount bookstore, is filled with lies in a futile attempt to rehabilitate his tattered reputation,” Cheung said.
McMaster did not respond to a request for comment from CBS News.
The same month as the phone call, another security failure happened after Trump’s current national security adviser, Mike Waltz, texted war plans in a Signal group chat where he had accidentally included the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic.
The Washington Post also reported that Waltz used his personal Gmail account for government communications.
National Security Council spokesperson Brian Hughes told The Post that Waltz “didn’t and wouldn’t send classified information on an open account.”
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