Team Trump’s ‘comically incompetent’ group chat
Mar 27, 2025•15 min
Episode description
Very senior members of the Trump administration have this week been caught mistakenly sharing secret plans to bomb the Houthi rebel group in Yemen with a journalist.
It happened when the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic was added to a group chat on the popular messaging app Signal, in what appears to be a spectacular breach of US national security.
Today, David Smith, from the United States Studies Centre on the great ‘Signalgate’ scandal.
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David Smith, associate professor of American Politics and Foreign Policy at the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney