May 1st, 2025.

President Donald Trump waited until the 101st day of his administration to fire National Security Advisor Mike Walts, the official responsible for including the editor-in-chief of the Atlantic on an

unsecure signal chat in which leaders shared classified information about a military strike

on the Houthis in Yemen. Defense Secretary Pete Hagsith, who uploaded the classified information

in that chat and shared it in another unsecured chat

with his wife, brother, and personal friends is still in the cabinet.

On April 28th, the U.S. campaign against the Houthis cost a $60 million F.A. 18 Super Hornet

Fighter Jet. The plane fell overboard from the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier

when the vessel turned sharply to avoid fire from the Houthis while military personnel were

moving the aircraft. Both the aircraft and the tow tractor moving it were lost, and one sailor

suffered minor injuries.

The signal scandal does not appear to have changed the Trump team's communications habits.

A Reuters photographer caught Waltz looking at his signal messages during yesterday's cabinet

meeting.

The list of messages included Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Special Envoy Steve Whitkoff,

Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, and Vice President J.D. Vance, whose message began,

I have confirmation from my counterpart.

Although signal messages appear to violate the Presidential Records Act that requires the preservation

of documents from an administration, the Trump team apparently continues to use the app.

Trump announced that he will nominate Waltz to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations,

the position Representative Elise Daphonic, a Republican of New York,

expected, but that Trump pulled from her because the Republicans' majority in the House of

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