In his post-Signalgate meeting with The Atlantic's editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg, Donald Trump admitted that the scandal was "real," but that Pete Hegseth's job is still safe despite accidentally looping Goldberg into supposedly top-secret chat about plans to bomb Houthis in Yemen and then repeating his mistake by copying his own wife into another classified chat on Signal.

When asked if Pete Hegseth would continue to serve in the federal government as Defense Secretary, Donald Trump said, 'Yeah, he’s safe.

President Donald Trump said there is one lesson his administration has learnt from Signalgate. "I think we learned: Maybe don't use Signal, okay?" Trump said of the messaging application in an interview with The Atlantic published Monday.