The Atlantic’s left-wing editor Jeffrey Goldberg is back in the spotlight—this time claiming he was privy to minute-by-minute war plans for U.S. strikes against Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi terrorists. According to Goldberg, he was “inadvertently” included in a Signal group chat with top Trump officials, including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Vice President JD Vance, where they allegedly discussed the upcoming military operation in stunning detail.
Goldberg went on MSNBC to breathlessly recount his moment of supposed insider access, claiming he saw precise timing, targets, weapon systems, weather reports, and sequencing of the strikes. “I’m going to be responsible here and not disclose the things that I read,” he said, right before describing all of it anyway. He even bragged that he saw it before the Houthis did.
The White House confirmed the group chat was real—but the idea that it contained anything resembling a classified war plan has been strongly denied by Hegseth, who called Goldberg “deceitful” and a “discredited so-called journalist.” And frankly, he’s right. This is the same Jeffrey Goldberg who helped peddle disinformation for years in an effort to undercut Trump’s presidency, and now he wants Americans to believe he just happened to be included in a live-fire mission thread?
Goldberg says he was added to the Signal thread by National Security Advisor Mike Waltz. According to Goldberg, the group was called “Houthi PC small group,” and he remained in it from March 11 until the strikes were carried out on March 15. Waltz hasn’t commented, but the White House says it’s reviewing how Goldberg’s number was “inadvertently” added.
Still, this entire episode reeks of desperation from a leftist media machine trying to sabotage Trump’s national security credibility. The actual mission—a successful precision strike campaign against the Houthi militants threatening global shipping—was executed cleanly and effectively. The only chaos came after The Atlantic decided to insert itself into the story.
President Trump brushed off the story Monday, telling reporters, “I don’t know anything about it. You’re telling me about it for the first time.” Then he added the only comment that really needed to be said: “The Atlantic is not much of a magazine.”
Goldberg and his pals can cry “classified!” all they want, but the reality is this: America has a commander-in-chief who acts with strength, clarity, and results. And if some discredited liberal editor got a peek at a group chat he didn’t belong in? That’s not a scandal. That’s a tech glitch—and a media circus trying to mask the success of Trump’s no-nonsense foreign policy.
