Trump Says He Won’t Fire Anyone Over Signal Chat Group Leak

‘I don’t fire people because of fake news and because of witch hunts,’ Trump said.

President Donald Trump speaks to the press as he meets with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte in the Oval Office of the White House on March 13, 2025. Seated from L to R, Vice President JD Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and national security advisor Mike Waltz. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images

President Donald Trump said on March 29 that he had no intention to fire anyone in his Cabinet after a journalist was accidentally added to a Signal group chat discussing his administration’s plans for an airstrike against the Houthis in Yemen.

“I don’t fire people because of fake news and because of witch hunts,” Trump told NBC News in a phone interview on March 29.