REFINISHING HIS CABINET: Amid reports that President Trump has decided to fire, or perhaps more accurately reassign, his national security adviser Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders has issued a classic “non-denial denial.” In a late-night tweet, Sanders said McMaster is still on the job, but stopped short of saying he won’t be leaving soon. “Just spoke to @POTUS and Gen. H.R. McMaster – contrary to reports they have a good working relationship and there are no changes at the NSC.” Multiple news organizations have been writing about Trump’s plans to reshape his Cabinet to be more in line with his policy views, and McMaster was known to have advised the president to go against his gut, most notably on Afghanistan.

Without naming any specific report, Trump himself called all the speculation, “very exaggerated,” but added, “there will always be change, and I think you want to see change.” Because McMaster is a serving military officer, he would not be out of a job, and in fact, if the president wanted to give him a soft landing, he could even promote McMaster by giving him a fourth star and a command somewhere. Stay tuned. As Trump himself said with a laugh in the Oval Office, “Who’s next?”