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President Donald Trump on Thursday demanded that a reporter stop asking about the group messaging scandal involving members of his Cabinet and other high-level officials.
While traveling on Air Force Once, a reporter asked Trump if he wanted to weigh in on the inspector general investigation into Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s use of Signal messaging app to discuss highly sensitive military plans.
At first, Trump was unclear on the question.
“What is it?” Trump said.
“There’s an IG investigation into the secretary of defense’s use of the Signal app,” she said.
Trump got irritated.
“Oh, is that? You’re bringing that up again?” a miffed Trump fired back. “Don’t bring that up again. Your editor’s probably, that’s such a wasted story.”
The reporter moved on to another question.
But Trump’s critics weren’t ready to let him off the hook, with many urging reporters to keep bringing up the Signal scandal, in which national security advisor Michael Waltz inadvertently added Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, to a group chat on military plans in Yemen and other sensitive matters.
They fired back on X:
If a politician doesn't answer the question, you ask again.
(And everybody on here who cheered when politicians like Kamala said: "Next question" to any question they didn't like, sit this one out) https://t.co/IjldaRQp24
Not sure what's worse, the reporter asking a softball "do you want to weigh in on that" [Signalgate] or the reporter immediately moving onto another topic when Trump demands, like a little baby, that she doesn't "bring that up again".
Our media is failing us. Again.… https://t.co/zRtZng40xg
Keep bringing it up, please! Until it's resolved, we're still at risk.
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He crashed the economy so everyone would stop asking him about Signal group chats and it didn't even work https://t.co/3DxFqWLg1N
— I Smoked The Tariffs But I Didnt Smoke The Economy (@BlackKnight10k) April 4, 2025Reporters
DO BRING THAT UP AGAIN who does trump think he is, sorry buddy you don’t get to control what questions are asked https://t.co/LJ7NwTMYH7
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