Unsecured. Undisciplined. Unfit: Trump Officials Shared Military Plans in Group Chat

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🔴 UPDATE: March 24, 2025
Trump Officials Caught Discussing Military Strike Plans on Signal—Reckless, Insecure, and Wide Open to Exploitation

In a stunning display of recklessness, top Trump administration officials were caught using the encrypted messaging app Signal to discuss sensitive military operations, including potential airstrikes in Yemen. One problem: they accidentally added a journalist to the group chat.

Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, was added by mistake to a Signal thread involving Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Vice President J.D. Vance. The chat—blandly titled “Houthi PC small group”—included real-time conversation about military planning, targeting, and coordination.

This is not about a single mistake. It’s about a culture of carelessness and disregard for national security. If a journalist can be added to a war planning chat by accident, what’s stopping a hostile foreign actor from getting in on purpose?

Key Developments:

• Senior officials used Signal to discuss a potential military strike on the Houthis in Yemen, bypassing secured channels and protocols.

• Jeffrey Goldberg was accidentally added to the group, giving him access to ongoing conversation between top cabinet officials about military action.

• While there is no confirmed evidence that classified information or operational specifics were compromised, national security experts have warned that this kind of behavior creates serious vulnerabilities.

• Analysts are raising alarms about how easily this mistake happened, pointing out that foreign adversaries could exploit similar weaknesses through social engineering or hacked devices.

The Real Story: Who Wins and Who Pays the Price?

This isn’t just embarrassing—it’s dangerous. Military planning belongs behind closed doors and behind secure firewalls. Not in a Signal group chat. The people tasked with protecting the country treated national security like a group project in a frat house.

And while no classified details are confirmed to have leaked, the mere exposure of timing, participants, or intent can be enough to put operations—or even lives—at risk. The people who lose here? Service members on the ground, and every American who depends on their government to take national defense seriously.

🔍 Why This Matters:

This isn’t the first sign of chaos inside Trump’s military apparatus—and it won’t be the last. We’re watching institutional norms crumble in real time.

If high-level war plans are being hashed out on Signal, what else is being left vulnerable to bad actors, adversaries, or even opportunistic insiders?

🚨 The Bottom Line:

This may not have been a classified breach—but it’s a flashing red light.

If you’re this casual with war planning, you don’t deserve the job. And if the wrong person had been added to that chat on purpose instead of by accident? The outcome could’ve been catastrophic.

This isn’t a one-off. It’s just the latest sign that the Trump regime is willing to put American lives on the line for ego and shortcuts.

📌 Sources:

• The Atlantic: The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans

• AP News: Trump officials texted war plans to a group chat in a secure app that included a journalist

• Politico: ‘Amateur hour’: Washington aghast at Trump administration’s war plan group chat

• CBS News: Top Trump officials included The Atlantic editor in group chat about plans to bomb Yemen

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