White House Criticizes The Atlantic Over ‘Oversold’ Attack Plans Messages

The White House is calling out The Atlantic for what it really is a partisan propaganda machine masquerading as journalism.

After days of media hysteria, Vice President JD Vance and top Trump administration officials have shredded the credibility of The Atlantic’s latest hit piece, which claimed that a leaked Signal group chat among former Trump military leaders contained “attack plans.” But when the full messages were finally released, they revealed no such thing.

In reality, the group chat showed routine military coordination not classified intelligence, not covert locations, and certainly not “war plans.”

Let’s break down what the messages actually contained:

• Basic timestamps for scheduled U.S. military airstrikes targeting Iranian-backed Houthi terrorists.

• Confirmation that the weather was favorable and foreign partners had already been alerted.

• Routine updates on F-18 and drone movements without any classified information, sources, or sensitive locations.

One message even explicitly stated “We are currently clean on OPSEC.”

So what was this really about? Simple: another desperate media ploy to attack Trump by any means necessary. The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, was mistakenly added to the Signal chat and then turned that blunder into a weapon cherry-picking and exaggerating the content to suggest wrongdoing where none existed.

Vice President Vance called him out directly: “It’s very clear Goldberg oversold what he had.”

Even CIA Director John Ratcliffe was dragged into the manufactured scandal for allegedly “outing” an intelligence officer when all he actually did was name his chief of staff, who was never undercover. Another swing and a miss for the left-wing media.

And National Security Adviser Mike Waltz didn’t mince words either “No locations. No sources & methods. NO WAR PLANS.” That’s the bottom line. This was standard high-level military prep, not some cloak-and-dagger conspiracy.

The real issue isn’t the chat it’s the Democrat media complex. Time and again, legacy outlets fabricate scandals out of thin air to paint Trump and his allies as dangerous, reckless, or corrupt. Meanwhile, they turn a blind eye to real security failures under Biden like the open southern border, the botched Afghanistan withdrawal, or the billions in taxpayer dollars funneled into Ukraine with little accountability.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt responded forcefully after the full messages were released “The Atlantic has conceded: these were NOT ‘war plans.’ This entire story was another hoax written by a Trump-hater who is well-known for his sensationalist spin.”

And she’s right. No matter how many headlines they pump out, Americans aren’t buying it anymore.

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