Newsmax host on the Trump administration texting war plans to a reporter: “No one on the right cares because nothing happened”
Rob Finnerty: “If we learned anything yesterday from all these text messages, it's a good thing”
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From the March 25, 2025, edition of Newsmax's Finnerty
ROB FINNERTY (HOST): OK, so the big story today, I'm going to tell you exactly how this is all going to play out. So nothing's going to happen. Nobody's going to get fired. Michael Waltz is not going to lose his job because, and this is important, no one on the right cares because nothing happened. And that's where we start tonight. I'm sure you heard the story today — the first major crisis of Donald Trump's second term — if you're a Democrat, that's not really a crisis at all, by the way. The left needs this to be a crisis, and that's really important. And if we learned anything yesterday from all these text messages, it's a good thing. It's that what the Trump team says in public is exactly what they're texting each other in private, which I actually think is a very good thing. I like knowing that the same stuff they all say on camera every week, they're saying to each other when the cameras aren't rolling.
So here's the story if you want to call it that. 18 people, seven of the most senior Trump officials in his administration — Michael Waltz, JD Vance, Marco Rubio, Pete Hegseth, John Ratcliffe, Tulsi Gabbard and Stephen Miller — were all on a group text using an approved encrypted app called Signal, talking about upcoming strikes on Houthi rebels in Yemen. And somehow, of all people, Jeffrey Goldberg of Atlantic magazine, maybe the most anti-Trump reporter in the country, the man who made up the suckers and losers story was inadvertently added to that group chat. Jeffrey Goldberg, whose wife once worked for Hillary Clinton, a Democrat who donates to Democrats who works at a magazine owned and operated by Democrats.