Mike Johnson Downplays Group Chat Leaks As ‘Officials Doing Their Job,’ Gets Torched On X

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is addressing the latest scandal from President Donald Trump’s administration, which saw top brass use a third-party messaging app to coordinate sensitive military strikes in Yemen — with a journalist added to the group chat.

Johnson was asked Monday whether he was concerned about “classified war plans” going public and said “the administration is addressing what happened” before arguing the messages showed nothing but professionalism.

“What you did see though, I think, was top-level officials doing their job, doing it well and executing on a plan with precision,” Johnson told reporters. “That mission was a success. No one was jeopardized because of it. We’re grateful for that.”

He continued, “But they will certainly, I’m sure, make sure that that doesn’t happen [again].”

Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, reported Monday he was inadvertently added to a group chat that included national security adviser Michael Waltz, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Vice President JD Vance.

Ex-Deputy White House Cabinet Secretary Dan Koh reacted bluntly on X, formerly Twitter.

“This wasn’t a group chat of besties deciding what Sweetgreen to order,” he wrote Monday. “American lives were on the line — and they knew it. The message this sends to our military from our most senior officials in all of government is unfathomable.”

Goldberg shared excerpted screenshots from the encrypted Signal chat group, which was called “Houthi PC small group” and had members discussing “information about targets” and “weapons the U.S. would be deploying” against the Yemeni group of rebels.

Hegseth has since denied the messages were war plans, despite the National Security Council confirming in a statement Monday that they were authentic, “deep and thoughtful policy coordination between senior officials.” Democrats have since shared dire concern.

“There is no world in which this information should have been shared in non-secure channels,” wrote Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.) on X. “Hegseth is in so far over his head that he is a danger to this country and our men and women in uniform.”

Goldberg wrote Monday that he was added to the group chat on March 11, and that things got “truly bizarre” on March 15 — when Hegseth shared “precise information about weapons packages, targets, and timing” of U.S. strikes in Yemen that occurred hours later.

Johnson and his seemingly blasé reaction have since been torched on social media.