Trump grants Oval Office interview to Jeffrey Goldberg, author of ‘suckers and losers’ story and Signal chat member: Doing this out of ‘curiosity’

WASHINGTON — President Trump announced Thursday that he will springiness a uncommon Oval Office question and reply to Jeffrey Goldberg, who wrote a disputed 2020 communicative accusing nan president of disparaging US warfare dormant as “suckers” and “losers” and who was mistakenly added to a Signal group chat on Yemen airstrikes past month.

“Later coming I will beryllium gathering with, of each people, Jeffrey Goldberg, nan Editor of The Atlantic, and nan personification responsible for galore fictional stories astir me, including nan made-up HOAX connected ‘Suckers and Losers’ and, SignalGate, thing he was somewhat much ‘successful’ with,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.

“Jeffrey is bringing pinch him Michael Scherer and Ashley Parker, not precisely pro-Trump writers, either, to put it mildly! The communicative they are writing, they person told my representatives, will beryllium entitled, ‘The Most Consequential President of this Century.’ I americium doing this question and reply retired of curiosity, and arsenic a title pinch myself, conscionable to spot if it’s imaginable for The Atlantic to beryllium ‘truthful.”

“Are they tin of penning a adjacent communicative connected ‘TRUMP’? The measurement I look astatine it, what tin beryllium truthful bad – I WON!”

Trump has done conscionable 2 different people interviews since reclaiming powerfulness successful January — first pinch The Post’s Miranda Devine and past pinch The Spectator’s Ben Domenech.

Here is nan latest connected nan Yemen Signal group-chat:

• ‘I’m floored’: Experts uncover ‘really scary’ info shared by Trump officials successful Signal group chat
• House Dems hint astatine perjury rap for intel chiefs complete Signal chat leak: ‘A dishonesty to nan country’
• Steve Witkoff did not usage Signal while successful Russia, White House says
• Atlantic publishes much ‘war plan’ Signal texts, including minute-by-minute specifications and weapons to usage successful Yemen strikes
• Atlantic editor Jeff Goldberg weighs ‘obligation’ of releasing much ‘war plans’ texts – arsenic he reveals undercover CIA agent’s personality was exposed
• Trump feels ‘very comfortable’ aft being briefed connected Houthi onslaught matter scandal, blames ‘lower level’ Waltz staffer for mishap
• Trump nationalist information squad messaged plans for Yemen strikes to Atlantic editor-in-chief successful stunning breach

Trump has had a long-running feud pinch Goldberg making love to nan 2020 campaign, erstwhile nan journalist claimed in a bombshell report that Trump “blamed rainfall for nan last-minute decision” to cancel a cemetery sojourn adjacent Paris successful 2018 by “saying that ‘the chopper couldn’t fly’ and that nan Secret Service wouldn’t thrust him there” and that “[n]either declare was true.”

Navy records showed that subject unit made a “bad upwind call” that canceled nan chopper flight, but Goldberg ne'er corrected his story.

Goldberg much precocious made waves by revealing past period that Trump’s nationalist information adviser, Mike Waltz, mistakenly added him to a Signal group chat successful which elder management officials, including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, shared plans astir looming airstrikes connected Yemen’s Houthi fighters.