Suspenseful photos show President Trump huddling with his top national security officials in the Situation Room during the historic strikes on three Iranian nuclear facilities — but one key person was missing.
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard — who the president had publicly split with this week over assessments on Iran’s nuclear program — was notably absent from the dramatic pics.
Gabbard had claimed to lawmakers in March that “Iran is not building a nuclear weapon,” but was directly contradicted by Trump in recent days, who said he didn’t “care what she said.”
“I think they were very close to having one,” he said of Iran’s nuclear ambitions Tuesday.
Gabbard, who testified before the Senate Appropriations Committee in a closed-door session Tuesday, later insisted to reporters that she and Trump are “on the same page.”
Despite the brief split, Gabbard was in the Situation Room, The Post confirmed. The national intelligence director was just not photographed.
A Trump admin spokesperson has confirmed the following Cabinet members and officials were in the Situation Room with the president as the US carried out its strikes on the Iranian nuclear facilities: Vice President JD Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Chairman of