The consequences of the alleged chat of the group of signals among the senior national security officials who inadvertently included a journalist is the last chapter between President Donald Trump and the chief editor of the Atlantic Jeffrey Goldberg, who once reported that Trump referred to fallen military members as “fools” and “losers.”
“He is like you know it is a SREAZBAG, but at the highest level. His magazine is failing,” Trump said about Goldberg on Wednesday during an appearance in the “Vince Show” podcast.
Before reaching the Atlantic, Goldberg has reported for several media, including The Washington Post, Forward and the New Yorker, which covers the Middle East, Washington’s policy and other issues.
He joined the Atlantic staff in 2007 and became his chief editor nine years later. In recent years, he has written articles on the internal functioning of the first Trump administration.
It was under his leadership that the Atlantic published his Third presidential support In the 168 -year history of the magazine when Backed The then Secretary of the State Hillary Clinton on Trump in the 2016 elections.
The support called in the then Trump candidate “The candidate of main parties more ostentatiously not qualified in the 227 years of history of the US presidency”, and said: “He is an enemy of speech based on facts; ignoring and indifferent to the Constitution; it seems not to read.”
Jeffrey Goldberg speaks on stage during the “Nancy Pelosi on the Art of Power” panel for the 2024 Atlantic Festival on September 19, 2024 in Washington, DC. | President Donald Trump meets American ambassadors in the White House Cabinet Room in Washington, DC, on March 25, 2025.
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A few weeks after support, Goldberg criticized Trump’s rhetoric during the campaign in a interview With Npr.
“At least, he trafficked in a racial invective knowing. For me, that is a threshold question. If you do that and if you know what you are doing, yes, you are racist. I think he is racist,” he said in the interview.
Trump has attacked Goldberg and the magazine during support for years, claiming that it was a failed publication.
A month before the 2020 elections, Goldberg wrote An article In the Atlantic that described an incident of 2018 in which Trump refused to visit an American cemetery in France, where they were buried to the members of the First World War service.
“Why should I go to that cemetery? He is full of losers,” Trump told his advisors, according to the article. He also said Trump called the fallen “dumb.”
The president denied having used those terms in what was then Twitter and went behind the sources of Goldberg. John Kelly, former Trump Cabinet Chief, later confirmed Goldberg’s account in an interview with CNN.
“This is more invented false news given by disgusting And jealous failures in a shameful attempt to influence the 2020 elections, “he tweeted.
Jeffrey Goldberg, editor in chief, The Atlantic, speaks with ABC News, March 26, 2025.
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The editor has remained critical of the policies, rhetoric and actions of Trump.
In 2023, months after Trump announced that he was running for re -election, the magazine made a complete theme dedicated to analyzing what a second Trump term would be and said it was not different from authoritarian regimes.
Trump called Goldberg by name two weeks before the 2024 elections after writing A piece about Trump’s relationship with the military during his first term. Goldberg wrote that former Trump officials told him that Trump was obsessed with the dictators and said he needed “the type of generals Hitler had,” citing two people who heard the private conversation.
The spokesman for then Trump, Alex Pfeiffer, said the anecdote was “absolutely false. President Trump never said this.”
White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt echoed the president’s attacks against Goldberg during a press conference on Wednesday claiming that the editor has spent years trying to discredit the president while ignoring Trump’s successes.
“Nobody in the media that loves to manufacture and push deception rather than Jeffrey Goldberg,” he told reporters.
Goldberg defended his reports during an interview with ABC News Live on Wednesday.
“They have decided to blame the guy who invited the conversation. It is a bit strange behavior,” he said. “Honestly, I don’t know why they are acting in this way, except to think that they know how serious a national security violation is. And that is why they have to divert it and push it to the guy, again, they invited the chat, namely me.”
