President Donald Trump Defended National Security Advisor Michael Waltz during an ambassador meeting on Monday, because his administration is confronted with severe recoil on the recent signal text chain leak.
Waltz, whose staff members unknowingly added the Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg to a Signal Group chat where State Secretary of State Pete Hegseeth And others discussed sensitive war plans have come under fire for the blunder. Trump spoke with a room full of reporters, said he believes that Waltz is ‘doing his best’.
“I don’t think he should apologize,” said the president. “I think he’s doing his best. It is equipment and technology that is not perfect.”
“And probably he will not use it anymore, at least not in the very near future,” he added.
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US President Donald Trump listens during an ambassador meeting in the cabinet room of the White House on March 25, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
Goldberg was previously added to the National Security Discussion, called “Houthi PC Small Group”. He was able to learn about attacks on Houthi hunters in Yemen Long in front of the public.
“According to the Lange Hegseeth text, the first detonations in Yemen would be felt for two hours, so at 1:45 pm Eastern Time,” Goldberg wrote about the experience. ‘So I waited in my car in a parking lot of a supermarket. If this signal chat was real, I reasoned, Houthi goals would soon be bombed. At about 1:55 I checked X and I searched Yemen. Explosions were then heard in Sanaa, the capital. “
Although the inclusion of Goldberg in the chat did not thwart the plans of the army, the infringement of national security has still surprised both supporters and critics of the Trump government. During the Tuesday meeting, Trump also said he was inside Contact with Waltz can break over or hackers in signal interviews.
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National security adviser Mike Waltz speaks while he is sitting with US President Donald Trump during an ambassador meeting in the Cabinet room of the White House on March 25, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
“Are people able to break into conversations? And if that is true, we must find a different form of device,” Trump said. “And I think that’s something that we might have to do. Some people really like to signal, other people probably don’t do that, but we’ll look at it.”
“Michael, I asked you to study that immediately and find out if people can break into a system,” he added.
In response, Waltz Trump assured that he has “watching” the technical experts of the White House “the situation” together with legal teams.
US President Donald Trump listens to the question of a reporter during an ambassador meeting in the Cabinet room of the White House on March 25, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
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“And of course we will keep everything as safe as possible,” said the national security officer. “Nobody in your national security team would ever endanger anyone. And as you said, we repeatedly said that the attack was phenomenal and it is going on.”
