By Molly Goddard
8:07am PDT, Apr 29, 2025
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Is
Donald Trump making late-night calls to journalists?
During an interview with
The Atlantic, writer
Michael Scherer claimed the president of the United States dialed his number at 1:30 a.m. after attending a UFC fight in Miami, Fla.
Keep reading to see how Trump responded to the accusation from the reporter…
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When the publication released the transcript of the conversation between Donald Trump, their editor-in-chief
Jeffrey Goldberg and writers
Ashley Parker and
Michael Scherer, one interesting question arose.
"Did you mean to call me at 1:30 in the morning after the UFC fight? I got a call…" Scherer asked Trump.
"After what?" the Republican leader asked.
"After the UFC fight in Miami, I got a call from your cellphone number at 1:30 a.m.," the journalist clarified.
"Really? Oh, no, that's another — that sounds like another Signal thing," Trump explained, referring to the messaging application.
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Elsewhere in the wide-ranging conversation, Donald Trump touched on Jeffrey Goldberg accidentally being added to a group chat where members of his administration were discussing military strikes on Houthi rebels in Yemen.
"I think we learned: Maybe don't use Signal, okay?" the commander-in-chief said of the text messaging application. "If you want to know the truth. I would frankly tell these people not to use Signal, although it's been used by a lot of people. But, whatever it is, whoever has it, whoever owns it, I wouldn't want to use it."
"You don't use Signal yourself?" Ashley Parker asked Trump.
"I don't use it, no," he replied.
The businessman also emphasized that National Security Advisor
Mike Waltz and Secretary of Defense
Pete Hegseth are respectively "fine" and "safe" from being fired from their jobs for the security hiccup.
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Donald Trump's administration reportedly endured another
security leak after
The New York Times claimed Pete Hegseth discussed military operations via text with his wife, brother and personal attorney.
"No one's texting war plans," Hegseth claimed during an interview with
Fox & Friends on Tuesday, April 22. "What was shared over Signal then and now, however you characterize it, was informal, unclassified coordination, for media coordination among other things."
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Although Pete Hegseth may be making a mistake here and there, Donald Trump has continuously expressed his confidence in him.
"Pete is doing a great job. Ask the
Houthis how he's doing," the right-wing politician said during the White House Easter egg roll on Monday, April 21. "He was put there to get rid of a lot of bad people and that's what he's doing. So you don't always have friends when that happens."
