On Thursday of last week, Jeffrey Goldberg — the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic who was accidentally included in one of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s classified Signal conference calls concerning attack plans against the Houthis in Yemen — met with Donald Trump in the Oval Office. With Goldberg were The Atlantic journalists Ashley Parker and Michael Scherer, about whom I commented yesterday with regard to their earlier interview of Trump.

When Goldberg asked Trump if SignalGate actually happened as reported, the reply was, “Yeah, it was real . . . you got it out very much to the public . . . it became a very big story.” [Sharon Knolle, The Wrap, April 28, 2025.]

Trump — the man who represents the United States of America on the world stage — was then asked what he had taken away from that security breach. And this was his nearly unintelligible response:

“I think we learned: Maybe don’t use Signal, OK? If you want to know the truth. I would frankly tell these people not to use Signal, although it’s been used by a lot of people. But, whatever it is, whoever has it, whoever owns it, I wouldn’t want to use it.” [Id.]

“Maybe don’t use it”? “Whatever it is”?

Right.

And he gave the citizens of the U.S. further assurance that everything is under control and we can all sleep well tonight by adding that he has no plans to fire Hegseth . . . this despite the two major security breaches that have made headlines around the world and potentially endangered the lives of our military personnel . . . saying simply, “Yeah, he’s safe.”

Well, I don’t know about you; but I’m sure I’ll sleep better knowing that my country is in the hands of a person who doesn’t know what the hell he’s talking about . . . and doesn’t care.

Sleep? Yeah . . . sure.

Just sayin’ . . .

Brendochka
4/30/25