War Crimes in the Chat: The Untold Absurdity of Signalgate

PART I: Oops, I Leaked It Again

National security used to involve classified briefings and rooms with no windows. In 2025, it involves a Signal group chat. Yes, really.

Meet Mike Waltz, Trump’s National Security Adviser and now patron saint of accidental espionage. Waltz, in a brain-melting act of digital clumsiness, added The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, to a group chat meant for the president’s war council. The topic? Yemen airstrikes.

Goldberg—mistakenly invited to the world’s dumbest war party—sat in this Signal thread while top brass like Pete Hegseth casually discussed military operations as if they were planning happy hour. And when Goldberg published what he saw? Chaos. As in, actual military-chaos-meets-Washington-circus kind of chaos.

PART II: Loomer’s Law – When Twitter Runs the War Room

Enter stage right: Laura Loomer, far-right Twitter warrior and self-declared policy queen. Following the leak, Trump didn’t consult generals or intelligence experts—he listened to Loomer’s timeline.

That’s right. The president reportedly fired three National Security Council officials after Loomer raged about the leak online. We’ve reached the point where foreign policy is dictated by the rage-emoji-industrial complex.

Forget strategy. Forget diplomacy. Loomer says “Jump,” and Trump says “You’re fired.”

PART III: Case Closed, Said the Dumpster Fire

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt stepped up to the mic and declared, with deadpan confidence, “The matter is closed.”

We beg to differ.

Meanwhile, the Pentagon’s Inspector General is still investigating Pete Hegseth for violating defense communication protocols. It’s giving “the call is coming from inside the house” energy. Because it is.

While Karoline tries to wave this all away like it’s a spilled latte, America’s military secrets were spilled across a Signal chat like loose change—and now the entire internet knows.

PART IV: The Group Chat That Could End the World (But Make a Great Podcast)

Imagine it: a podcast called “Leaked & Loaded” hosted by Hegseth and Loomer. Theme song: a remix of air-raid sirens and Signal dings. Special guest? Jeffrey Goldberg, live from the “oops” chair.

The Signal chat in question might as well have been named “NSC Boyz: Yemen Plans V2.” Mid-blink selfies, hot takes, missile coordinates. And somehow, not one person noticed the outsider lurking in the corner.

We used to call this treason. Now it’s just Tuesday.

PART V: When Government Becomes the Group Project Nobody Studied For

This isn’t just a one-off scandal. This is the blueprint for a government too distracted to notice it’s burning.

Instead of leadership, we got emojis. Instead of briefings, we got group chats. Instead of consequences, we got a press secretary closing the curtain on a still-raging dumpster fire.

This is what happens when you replace policy with performance art and substitute war rooms with DMs. And yet, the administration marches on, blissfully unaware—or just uninterested—in how deeply unserious it all looks.