The Daily Show gleefully mocks Trump officials scrambling Signal chat excuses
“Maybe try not making that mistake when you’re planning for a war?”
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Sam Haysom is the Deputy UK Editor for Mashable. He covers entertainment and online culture, and writes horror fiction in his spare time.
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As much as they’re probably hoping it’ll blow over, the story about Trump officials accidentally adding a reporter to their Signal group chat about bombing Yemen isn’t going away anytime soon.
The Daily Show has already taken aim at the leak itself, but in the clip above host Ronny Chieng goes after the excuses that are now being made by members of the Trump administration trying to cover their backs — starting with national security advisor Michael Waltz alleging he had Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg’s details saved under a different contact name in his phone.
“People don’t have a contact with, like, a phone number for a different person unless they’re having an affair,” responds Chieng. “Maybe try not making that mistake when you’re planning for a war? And why are you shitting on Jeffrey Goldberg? He’s a loser, he sucks, this guy’s dishonest. He didn’t do anything! All he did was wake up in the morning and you added him to your group chat!”
Chieng also has some thoughts on defence secretary Pete Hegseth repeatedly claiming that nobody was texting war plans.
“OK, look, just because you write in all caps, ‘THIS IS WHEN THE FIRST BOMBS WILL DEFINITELY DROP,’ doesn’t mean they’re war plans!”
Sam Haysom is the Deputy UK Editor for Mashable. He covers entertainment and online culture, and writes horror fiction in his spare time.
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