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27 funniest and most totally on-point things people are saying about the White House security cock-up
As you can’t possibly have failed to be aware of by now, everyone’s talking about the White House security breach in which a top level White House group chat somehow ended up with a journalist among the people taking part.
If that Atlantic’s editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg hadn’t flagged his presence to all concerned, after the discussion shared highly sensitive information about impending military action, he would presumably still be in it.
In 25 years of covering national security, I’ve never seen a story like this: Senior Trump officials discussed planning for the U.S. attack on the Houthis in a Signal group–and inadvertently added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. https://t.co/IQfcvZHqmW
— Shane Harris (@shaneharris) March 24, 2025
Donald Trump did his usual thing by telling everyone he knew nothing about it, while defence secretary Pete Hesgeth went on the attack, neither of them doing their case any good whatsoever.
The scandal has prompted no end of very funny and totally on-point comments and these 27 people surely said it best.
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Very serious administration pic.twitter.com/37YrkX3S1V
— Karina Vinnikova (@KarinaVinnikova) March 24, 2025
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I would like some assurance that the “VP” Hegseth is referring to is not Vladimir Putin. pic.twitter.com/kkajSlfFbL
— Alexander S. Vindman (@AVindman) March 25, 2025
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Can you imagine being the Chinese hacker reading the warplanning group chat in real time and trying to get your higher ups to believe it’s legit
— dylan matthews (@dylanmatt) March 24, 2025
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There’s a decent chance that we all died of Covid and this is hell
— Corey Ryan Forrester First Of His Name (@CoreyRForrester) March 24, 2025
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— Peter Twinklage (@PeterTwinklage) March 24, 2025
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We have a winner pic.twitter.com/m3dFuLmpGc
— MaineWonk (@TheMaineWonk) March 24, 2025
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“I think you’ve got the wrong number, I don’t know anything about the Yemen.” pic.twitter.com/cAk37bN4zN
— Mark Hammond (@MarkHam80780803) March 24, 2025
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— Anonymous (@YourAnonCentral) March 24, 2025
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These people have the nuclear codes, your social security number, tax records…
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) March 24, 2025
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“We’ll send our plans straight to the enemy, then we’ll do exactly as they say. It’s the last thing they’ll expect us to do.” https://t.co/2GK0LfIVj4 pic.twitter.com/fu0ISHGOdj
— Colin the Dachshund (@DachshundColin) March 24, 2025
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nightmare group chat pic.twitter.com/gxgQtcaozT
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 24, 2025
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Yeah, she’s allowed to be mad about this one ngl. https://t.co/ZmzCRCHbbp
— Joe (@electionsjoe) March 24, 2025
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The world’s gonna end because half of America is so racist they voted to give the nuclear codes to the 3 dumbest people on the planet rather than vote for a black woman
— Conspiratorial Templates (@mynamehear) March 24, 2025
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Pete Hegseth’s morning routine just dropped. pic.twitter.com/lLc3JrM3Zh
— Mark Warner (@MarkWarner) March 24, 2025