The editor-in-chief of The Atlantic was accidentally included in a group chat with some of the most powerful people in the U.S. government and received classified information about the bombing campaign against the Houthis in Yemen. It’s an explosive scandal involving U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Vice President JD Vance, along with a host of other top defense and intelligence officials, that should force a reckoning as the dumbest people to ever run the United States endanger national security. But it’s also absolutely hilarious. At least, the good folks of social media think so.
Sure, as a journalist, Jeffrey Goldberg should never have been on those chats. Sure, it raises serious questions about whether top U.S. defense officials should literally be thrown in prison over the breach. But those concerns melt away when you remember how breathtakingly ridiculous it all is.
These guys invited the editor of an incredibly popular magazine into a group chat to discuss secret war plans. They openly discussed ways to not impact Saudi Arabian oil interests in the region, according to Goldberg. And it says it all that Goldberg himself didn’t think it was real when he was first added to the group chat. It’s just too dumb to be real.
And yet, it’s our reality. So the internet is going to laugh, if only because there’s virtually no chance that powerful people are going to be held to account in the Trump administration. And the memes that we share to deal with that reality a small light in this trying time. Below, a handful of the funniest memes we saw floating around social media.
— Kampf mit Kette (@kampfmitkette.bsky.social) March 24, 2025 at 12:29 PM
— singletrack (@singletrack.bsky.social) March 24, 2025 at 4:56 PM
— onion person (@junlper.beer) March 24, 2025 at 3:34 PM
me reading national security secrets bc i’ve been accidentally added to a group chat
— derek guy (@dieworkwear.bsky.social) March 24, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Txt STOP to opt out of updates on war plans
— Leta McCollough Seletzky (@laseletzky.bsky.social) March 24, 2025 at 1:39 PM
@ditzkoff.bsky.social
From now on in every White House Chat:
— Dr Grant (@semicharmedquark.bsky.social) March 24, 2025 at 10:33 AM
— Frank Sauer (@drfranksauer.bsky.social) March 24, 2025 at 2:49 PM
— Mia Sato (@miasato.bsky.social) March 24, 2025 at 2:55 PM
— Adam Kinzinger (@adamkinzinger.bsky.social) March 24, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Me in the National Security team group chat
— Dan Hassler-Forest (@danhf.bsky.social) March 24, 2025 at 3:18 PM
When you’re accidentally added to the NatSec group chat.
every group chat has:
– the secretary of defense
– the high ranking military official carrying out kinetic operations in a country we’re not officially at war with
– the editor in chief of the Atlantic— ʝꪖꪀꪊᦓ ᥅ꪮᦓꫀ (@janus.bsky.social) March 24, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Uh oh the Trump administration accidentally added us to their group chat
— The Daily Show (@thedailyshow.com) March 24, 2025 at 1:31 PM
JD VANCE: 45 told me he was thinking about nuking Iran. what do u guys think?
PETE HEGSETH: who is bonerdude
JD VANCE: that’s the homie we play counter strike sometimes
— farner (@farnerb0cken.bsky.social) March 24, 2025 at 4:40 PM
“Wait guys, P. Hegseth is typing…”
— News Eye (@newseye.bsky.social) March 24, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Jeffrey Goldberg ending up in that group chat:
— Parker Molloy (@parkermolloy.com) March 24, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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