Okay, Jeff, you get invited to the Oval Office by a guy who has referred to you as a total sleazebag and the editor of a failing magazine.

Yeah.

How did you expect he would receive you?

Like, as you were going over there, what did you think was going to happen?

80%.

He would be full charm offensive.

20%.

He would start yelling at me.

This is the Atlantic's editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg.

Talking about Donald Trump, of course.

I figured that people on the staff on his team might be a little dubious about this

whole operation, and they were.

That was facially obvious, as they say.

But no, him, I figured, I kind of guessed this correctly.

I figured he was bringing me over there to try to charm me.

This is Radio Atlantic. I'm Hannah Rosen.

Not long before Jeff, an Atlantic staff writer's Michael Shearer and Ashley Parker met in the Oval Office on Thursday, Trump posted on

truth social calling Jeff a person, quote, responsible for many fictional stories about me.

But Trump also wrote that Jeff's latest story, Signalgate, about when Jeff was accidentally

added to a group chat about war plans, oops, was somewhat successful.

Trump wrote the word successful in quotes.

In the second half of the show, we are going to talk to Michael and Ashley about their cover story in the Atlantic.

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