Tulsi Gabbard resigns as Director of National Intelligence, cites husband's cancer

scienceMay 22, 2026511,805

Tulsi Gabbard resigned as Director of National Intelligence, saying she will step down to support her husband after he was diagnosed with a rare form of bone cancer. Her resignation, conveyed in her letter, removes the top U.S. intelligence official appointed by President Trump and creates an immediate vacancy at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. That vacancy matters because the DNI coordinates intelligence across agencies and helps shape U.S. national security decisions moving forward.

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑

@50501movement.bsky.social

BREAKING NEWS! ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST: Tulsi Gabbard resigns, becoming fourth Trump Cabinet Secretary to depart in 2026.

33757d ago

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑16

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has informed Donald Trump that she is resigning from her post, citing her husband's health, becoming the fourth Cabinet Secretary to resign from Trump's cabinet this year.

crochic99.bsky.social6

She still needs to be held accountable for her part in the trump plot in Venezuela, and her treacherous actions connected to the seizing of ballots if AMERICAN voters! When Dems reg power, they need to arrest, convict & put her on trial! Imo, shes a traitor!

Luigi -the Pizza Prime Minister2

Tulsi must have been called home for a home assignment for Putin

Middle Age Riot

@middleageriot.bsky.social

During this difficult time, please show as much compassion to Tulsi Gabbard as she has shown to the transgender community.

26256d ago

FilmAlicia3

I hope her handlers in Moscow aren’t too irritated with her for failing at her mission.🤣👎

Lemon J2

Poor thing is going to enter the private sector and have to fund her own security

OFFICIAL ANTIFA MASCOT DOG2

As a middle aged person of less than wealth, I don’t feel sorry for her. As an American, who does not like Russian spies operating inside my government, a resignation is one rope too few.

Zeteo

@zeteo.com

BREAKING: Tulsi Gabbard, Trump Warmonger and Aspiring Election-Rigger, Resigns Read here, by @swin24.bsky.social and @andrewperez.bsky.social: zeteo.com/p/breaking-t...

15757d ago

Ace Combs Art28

Now that's how you write a headline.

crochic99.bsky.social2

Imho, she’s a traitor and she needs “to go through some things”!

Frank Figliuzzi

@frankfigliuzzi.bsky.social

Tulsi Gabbard becomes the fourth cabinet level member to leave the administration; all women. She cites her husband’s rare cancer diagnosis: wapo.st/4wEWSNv

12957d ago

Guardian6

I’m certain there are male Russian assets willing to step in.

rookster10.bsky.social4

Stink ain't gonna wash off

TXStranger4

Or more likely he’s forcing out all the women.

favoriteauntlauren.bsky.social2

She'll be replaced by someone worse. IF her husband has cancer, I'm sorry. At the same time, she needs to use the diagnosis to raise awareness of the subtype of cancer and raise funding. I say this as a 10-year survivor of a 10 in 1 million cancer.

rngtrik.bsky.social2

Her legacy is tied to a Trump pardon even Putin couldn’t save her!….

psudonym

@psudonym.bsky.social

Sometimes I’m seeing news of tulsi gabbard and think they’re firing the lady from Thunderbolts.

10057d ago

The Bulwark

@thebulwark.com

The problem with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence predates Tulsi Gabbard. But she has put it into the sharpest relief yet:

9256d ago

PBS News

@pbsnews.org

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, the highest-ranking intelligence official in the U.S. government, has resigned. https://to.pbs.org/49c4s8s

7456d ago

Justin Baragona

@justinbaragona.bsky.social

Yeah, the whole cover story that she's stepping aside to support her husband amid his cancer diagnosis is exactly that -- a front. "A source familiar with the matter said that Gabbard had been forced out by the White House." www.reuters.com/world/us/gab...

6057d ago

wioozyi2

the military developed such integrity in me that i'm going to reach the highest promotion of my career and bow out by blaming my, let me check my options, husbands not public and probably fake terminal cancer diagnosis when im fired

Rep. Dan Goldman

@repdangoldman.bsky.social

I wish Tulsi Gabbard and her husband well as he battles bone cancer. As the search begins for the next DNI, Congress must insist on a leader not only defined by competence & institutional expertise but one who will not politicize our intelligence agencies or use intelligence for partisan purposes.

4257d ago

Rep. Dan Goldman21

At this time of intense global and domestic instability, this position demands an unwavering commitment to the Constitution and the American people — not loyalty to an unhinged, lawless president.

Bill Madden

@maddenifico.bsky.social

Tulsi Gabbard is the fourth official to resign from the corrupt authoritarian Trump regime. How many more to go?

3657d ago

the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist)

@merovingians.bsky.social

like okay, yeah, Noem sucked but I had no doubt they could do worse. Tulsi Gabbard might be the single most unsuitable person to be DNI alive.

5357d ago

A. fulgens ♨️🇨🇦🇪🇺9

Vladimir Putin wearing a fake mustache.

Jonathan King4

Still might be a better choice

geoffrey

@parsnip.bsky.social

it is good that tulsi gabbard is gone and also we are almost certainly going to find out she's done things to earn spending the rest of her life in prison

4157d ago

geoffrey14

it is of course possible that she was so entirely sidelined as a political figurehead that she couldn't manage it but i simply do not think someone like that with at least theoretical access to the incredible intelligence capabilities of the united states government did not get up to some bullshit

@Boom-WhatsGoingOn.bsky.social

@boom-whatsgoingon.bsky.social

I wish Tulsi Gabbard’s husband the best with his cancer battle. But I also have to say, this is the least qualified Cabinet & group of Secretaries ever assembled, it didn’t take long for the walls to begin crumbling in on them! Breaking news: Tulsi Gabbard resigns as intelligence chief…

2757d ago

Whistleblower Aid

@wbaidlaw.bsky.social

Tulsi Gabbard's resignation was long overdue. The next DNI must work to undo the damage done during her tenure. Our full statement: whistlebloweraid.org/whistleblowe...

2957d ago

John Dunlevy

@jdunlevy.bsky.social

“By her own words, Gabbard is not resigning out of principle or in protest.” zeteo.com/p/breaking-t...

2757d ago

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