WASHINGTON — President Trump announced Thursday that he will give a rare Oval Office interview to Jeffrey Goldberg, who wrote a disputed 2020 story accusing the president of disparaging US war dead as “suckers” and “losers” and who was mistakenly added to a Signal group chat on Yemen airstrikes last month.
“Later today I will be meeting with, of all people, Jeffrey Goldberg, the Editor of The Atlantic, and the person responsible for many fictional stories about me, including the made-up HOAX on ‘Suckers and Losers’ and, SignalGate, something he was somewhat more ‘successful’ with,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
“Jeffrey is bringing with him Michael Scherer and Ashley Parker, not exactly pro-Trump writers, either, to put it mildly! The story they are writing, they have told my representatives, will be entitled, ‘The Most Consequential President of this Century.’ I am doing this interview out of curiosity, and as a competition with myself, just to see if it’s possible for The Atlantic to be ‘truthful.”
“Are they capable of writing a fair story on ‘TRUMP’? The way I look at it, what can be so bad – I WON!”
Trump has done just two other print interviews since reclaiming power in January — first with The Post’s Miranda Devine and then with The Spectator’s Ben Domenech.
Here is the latest on the Yemen Signal group-chat:
Trump has had a long-running feud with Goldberg dating to the 2020 campaign, when the journalist claimed in a bombshell report that Trump “blamed rain for the last-minute decision” to cancel a cemetery visit near Paris in 2018 by “saying that ‘the helicopter couldn’t fly’ and that the Secret Service wouldn’t drive him there” and that “[n]either claim was true.”
Navy records showed that military personnel made a “bad weather call” that canceled the helicopter flight, but Goldberg never corrected his story.
Goldberg more recently made waves by revealing last month that Trump’s national security adviser, Mike Waltz, mistakenly added him to a Signal group chat in which senior administration officials, including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, shared plans about looming airstrikes on Yemen’s Houthi fighters.
Read the full article here
