By Molly Goddard
3:08am PDT, Mar 27, 2025
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President
Donald Trump isn't too worried about the group text message scandal.
During a Tuesday, March 25, interview with
Newsmax host
Greg Kelly, the Republican leader addressed
The Atlantic editor
Jeffrey Goldberg claiming he was mistakenly included in a chain with other members of the Trump administration about military strikes in Yemen. Despite the backlash, the commander-in-chief isn't troubled by the issue.
Join us to read what Trump said about the headline-making matter…
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According to reports, there were 18 people along with Donald Trump in the text message chain including Vice President
J.D. Vance, Defense Secretary
Pete Hegseth, Director of National Intelligence
Tulsi Gabbard, CIA Director
John Ratcliffe and national security adviser
Mike Waltz, who led deliberations about the recent mission.
"There was no classified information. There was no problem. And the attack was a tremendous success," Trump said on
Newsmax.
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When asked about the
public outrage over the matter and if it were true, Donald Trump said, "I can only go by what I've been told."
"I wasn't involved in it, but I was told by and the other people weren't involved at all. But I feel very comfortable, actually," the former reality star made clear.
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Donald Trump pinned the mishap on a Michael Waltz staffer: "What it was, we believe, is somebody that was on the line with
permission, somebody that was with Mike Waltz, worked for Mike Waltz at a lower level, had, I guess, Goldberg's number or called through the app and somehow this guy ended up on the call," Trump explained of Jeffrey Goldberg's inclusion in the chat.
Trump doubled down on blaming Watlz while speaking with
NBC News. "It was one of Michael's people on the phone. A staffer had [Goldberg's] number on there," he said.
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Despite Donald Trump's explanation, Michael Waltz told a different story during an interview with Fox News'
Laura Ingraham, claiming "a staffer wasn't responsible."
"Look, I take full responsibility," the former Army Special Forces officer said. "I built the group. My job is to make sure everything's coordinated."
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Michael Waltz went on to slam Jeffrey Goldberg while he emphasized how he didn't know how the journalist ended up in the chain.
"I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but of all the people out there, somehow this guy who has lied about the
president, who has lied to Gold Star families, lied to their attorneys and gone to Russia hoax, gone to just all kinds of lengths to lie and smear the president of the United States, and he's the one that somehow gets on somebody's contact and then gets sucked into this group," Waltz noted.
