White House Responds After Journalist Apparently Looped Into Group Chat on Houthi Strike

White House National Security Council spokesman Brian Hughes said the Trump admin is ’reviewing how an inadvertent number was added' to the Signal chat.

President Donald Trump (C) delivers remarks alongside Secretary of State Marco Rubio (L) and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. during a Cabinet meeting at the White House on March 24, 2025. Win McNamee/Getty Images

The Atlantic magazine’s editor-in-chief was accidentally added to a Trump administration text chat discussing the renewed campaign of U.S. airstrikes on Houthi terrorists in Yemen in the hours after the first bombs dropped, the White House has confirmed.

In a story published in The Atlantic on March 24, journalist and editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg said he was added to a group chat on the encrypted messaging app Signal on March 13.