On Thursday, President Donald Trump introduced he would sit for an interview with Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic, writing on his Fact Social platform that Goldberg was “the person responsible for many fictional stories about me, including the made-up HOAX on ‘Suckers and Losers’ and, SignalGate, something he was somewhat more ‘successful’ with.”
Goldberg’s “somewhat more successful” story that Trump is referring to concerned prime Trump administration officers discussing warfare plans on the unsecured Sign messaging app, in a gaggle chat that by accident included Goldberg.
The obscene lapses in safety and judgment made by the officers concerned—from Secretary of Protection Pete Hegseth to Vice President JD Vance—ought to have been career-ending.
In his publish, Trump additionally refers to a 2020 Atlantic report about Trump allegedly skipping a go to to the graves of American troopers buried within the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery, close to Paris, as a result of he seen the fallen as “suckers” and “losers.” And regardless of Trump’s assertion that the story was a “HOAX,” The Atlantic’s reporting was corroborated by Trump’s personal former chief of employees John Kelly.
Trump’s earlier, public assaults on the late Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona, a former prisoner of warfare, did little to assist his denials of denigrating service members. “He’s not a war hero. He was a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured,” Trump famously mentioned in 2015, whereas additionally calling McCain a “loser.”
It’s exhausting to say why Trump is agreeing to be interviewed by a reporter of integrity somewhat than, say, a Fox Information propagandist. Perhaps Trump hopes the optics of the interview will enhance his tanking approval score. Perhaps it was so simple as Goldberg telling him the article’s title will probably be “The Most Consequential President of this Century,” no matter what they write about him.
