'Chaotic, sloppy and messy': Trump unhappy with coverage of war chat debacle

As calls grow for Donald Trump to dismiss Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth as part of the fallout from the report that journalist Jeffrey Goldberg was allowed into a war planning chat thereby compromising national security, MSNBC host Jonathan Lemire was asked on Wednesday morning how it is all playing out in the White House.

Sitting down with fellow "Morning Joe" co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mike Brzezinski, Lemire noted that Trump had hoped his second term would go smoother than his first which led to his re-election loss in 2020 and his great concern right now is how the Signal chat debacle is playing out in the press.

"Talk to us. Go behind the doors in the White House," Lemire was promoted by co-host Scarborough. "I mean, you're reporting some people not happy inside the White House at all."

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"First of all, it's just a real throwback also to the first Trump term, which was so chaotic and sloppy and messy, and they really tried this time around to pride themselves on being more professional; they're getting more things done," Lemire reported. "So for some in the in the West Wing, it was an unfortunate reminder of how things were."

"But there is some unhappiness here," he added. "The president himself, as I report today, you know, doesn't like a lot of the media coverage that surrounded about this. Yes, it's a familiar playbook, though: attack the messenger, go after the Jeffrey Goldberg, go after the reporter, the outlet. He called Jeffrey a sleazebag yesterday repeatedly in a White House meeting."

"But by the way," he elaborated. "There's a history there that goes back to Jeffrey reporting from people who work for Donald Trump about what he said about 'suckers and losers.'"

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