Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth in the White House briefing room on Jan 30. The White House effort to defend Defense Hegseth leaned heavily into a semantic argument-that what he posted on the now-infamous Signal chat with his national security colleagues was not a “war plan,” they insist. — Doug Mills/The New York Times
TRUMP administration officials haven’t kept their disdain for Europe quiet. But the contempt seems to be even louder behind closed doors.
Europeans reacted with a mix of exasperation and anger to the publication of parts of a discussion between top-ranking Trump administration officials, carried out on the messaging app Signal. The discussion, about a planned strike on Yemen, was replete with comments that painted Europeans as geopolitical parasites, and was revealed last Monday in The Atlantic, whose editor was inadvertently included in the conversation.
