‘Crisis’: Text sends Trump over the edge

During World War Two there was a saying: Loose lips sink ships.

Do you think that US Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth has heard that phrase before?

Secretary Hegseth, who until two months ago was a weekend breakfast TV host, has just proven himself to be one of the truly great dumb-dumbs of modern life by handing us the first really monumental cock-up of the second Trump presidency.

This week, it was revealed that The Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg had been accidentally added to a group chat (via the Signal app) including pretty much every senior member of the Trump administration – aside from the President himself – where they shared war plans and emojis.

Bomb emoji. Red-faced emoji.

Whoopsie doodle.

But this scandal is more than just an opportunity for you and I to enjoy a good, long therapeutic crackle, because Chatgate (The Yemen Yeller? The Signal Bingle?) is a much bigger deal for Donald Trump than just being deeply embarrassing.

It could be a real tipping point.

This could be the first el scandalo that has some of those whatcha me-call-its.

Consequences.

For nearly a decade now, no matter the scandal, nothing has affected Mr Trump’s standing with his tirel...
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