U.S. National Security Advisor Mike Waltz looks on as he sits next to U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, while U.S. President Donald Trump (not pictured) meets with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte (not pictured), in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., March 13, 2025. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
A top national security adviser to Donald Trump may get pushed out of the White House following a bombshell report that he inadvertently added a journalist to a group chat on Signal, where he and other top officials discussed top-secret war plans.
On March 15, just hours before the U.S. launched a series of strikes, Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth shared operational details in a group chat that mistakenly included Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, Goldberg said Monday. The leaked information contained operational details of upcoming strikes on Yemen, specifics on targets, weapons to be deployed, and the sequence of attacks.
Goldberg said he was added to the chat by national security adviser Mike Waltz. Following his explosive report about the serious security lapse, Waltz's future is now up in the air, according to Politico.
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While nothing has been finalized, the report sparked "furious discussion" inside the White House about whether to force out Waltz, according to the report. President Donald Trump is set to make that decision within the next two days as he watches coverage of the spectacle.
A senior Trump administration official told the outlet that there are threads between staffers on how to handle Waltz. Dasha Burns, White House bureau chief at Politico, told CNN's Kaitlan Collins on "The Source" they're looking for "who's going to pay" — with some saying he ought to resign to "spare Trump."
“Half of them saying he’s never going to survive or shouldn’t survive,” the official told the outlet.
“It was reckless not to check who was on the thread. It was reckless to be having that conversation on Signal. You can’t have recklessness as the national security adviser,” the official added.
A person close to the White House told the outlet: “Everyone in the White House can agree on one thing: Mike Waltz is a f---ing idiot.”