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Trump announces he'll be interviewed by The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg
By David Rutz
Published April 24, 2025
President Donald Trump announced he will sit down with The Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg for an interview on Thursday, in spite of Trump believing he's responsible for "many fictional stories" about him over the years.
Goldberg was behind the explosive story last month about being accidentally included on a private Signal chat of Trump administration officials discussing an upcoming attack in Yemen.
Trump said in a Truth Social post that Atlantic writers Michael Scherer and Ashley Parker would join Goldberg, and he agreed to the interview "out of curiosity." The White House confirmed the interview will take place in the Oval Office.
"Later today I will be meeting with, of all people, Jeffrey Goldberg, the Editor of The Atlantic, and the person responsible for many fictional stories about me, including the made-up HOAX on ‘Suckers and Losers’ and, SignalGate, something he was somewhat more 'successful' with," Trump wrote.
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The Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg. ( Jemal Countess/Getty Images for The Atlantic)
"Jeffrey is bringing with him Michael Scherer and Ashley Parker, not exactly pro-Trump writers, either, to put it mildly! The story they are writing, they have told my representatives, will be entitled, 'The Most Consequential President of this Century.' I am doing this interview out of curiosity, and as a competition with myself, just to see if it's possible for The Atlantic to be 'truthful.' Are they capable of writing a fair story on 'TRUMP'? The way I look at it, what can be so bad – I WON!"
Trump's sit-down with The Atlantic shows once again he's willing to venture beyond friendly outlets. He has been harshly critical of Goldberg and the left-leaning magazine, including after Goldberg was in the midst of a strange saga last month known as "SignalGate."
Goldberg reported last month that he was shocked to be included on a group Signal chat of top Trump figures – including National Security Advisor Michael Waltz, Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio – discussing plans to attack the Houthis in Yemen.
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He remained quiet about his inclusion on the chat until after the attacks took place, which confirmed to him that he was not being pranked, but in fact was seeing private discussions in real time. The National Security Council later acknowledged his inadvertent inclusion in the chat.
President Donald Trump speaks as he signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House, Thursday, April 17, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Critics pounced on the saga as proof of Trump administration incompetence and recklessness, while officials involved like Hegseth said it was much ado about nothing.
Goldberg, already persona non grata with Trump for his longtime claim that the president once called dead veterans "suckers" and "losers," did not improve his standing in the president's eyes.
"I happen to know the guy is a total sleazebag," Trump said last month of Goldberg. "The Atlantic is a failed magazine, does very, very poorly. Nobody gives a damn about it."
Trump press secretary Karoline Leavitt said there was "arguably no one in the media who loves manufacturing and pushing hoaxes more than Jeffrey Goldberg," at one point referring to him as an "anti-Trump hater."
President Trump and The Atlantic's editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI / Contributor | Tasos Katopodis / Stringer)
Goldberg interviewed President Barack Obama several times in office for lengthy Atlantic features about his foreign policy.
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While The Atlantic has printed heterodox views on various topics, it could never be mistaken for a Trump-friendly outlet. Under Goldberg's leadership, The Atlantic endorsed Joe Biden in 2020 and Kamala Harris in 2024, only the fourth and fifth presidential endorsements in the magazine's history. It also endorsed Hillary Clinton in 2016, the same year Goldberg became editor.
It's referred to him as "one of the most personally malignant and politically dangerous" candidates in history and printed numerous articles and opinion pieces assailing his brand of politics and governance.
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