Trump will meet with Jeffrey Goldberg of Atlantic for the interview despite the signaling debacle, criticism

For years, President Donald Trump has criticized politically harmful reports of the chief editor of the Atlantic Jeffrey Goldberg as false, invented.

His most recent criticism has been the story of the Goldberg bomb on a signal chat to which he was accidentally invited, one that included the best members of the Trump National Security team, talking about an imminent military attack against Huti terrorists in Yemen.

Now, in a surprise turn, Trump said he would speak face to face with Goldberg on Thursday after Claiming social truth That Goldberg, along with the Atlantic writers, Michael Scherer and Ashley Parker, would sit with him for an interview.

“The story they are writing, they have told my representatives, will be entitled,” the most consistent president of this century, “he said.

Goldberg and Atlantic have not commented on Trump’s post or the alleged meeting until Thursday afternoon.

Although the president said that Goldberg was “responsible for many fictitious stories about me,” he said he hopes the meeting.

“I am doing this interview out of curiosity, and as competition with myself, just to see if it is possible that the Atlantic is ‘sincere’,” Trump published. “Are you able to write a fair story about ‘Trump’? The way I see it, what can be so bad.”

Goldberg and Trump have had a controversial round trip since the campaign of President 2016, when the journalist criticized Trump’s rhetoric.

“At least, he trafficked in a racial invective to know. For me, that is a threshold question. If you do that and if you know what you are doing, yes, you are racist. I think he is a racist,” he said in 2016 NPR interview.

Trump criticized the coverage of the Atlantic of his campaign and the first term, but things were heated in 2020 after Goldberg wrote An article That described a 2018 incident in which, according to the reports, the president refused to visit an American cemetery in France, where members of the World War I service were buried.

“Why should I go to that cemetery? He is full of losers,” Trump told his advisors, according to the article. He also said Trump called the fallen “dumb.”

The president heatedly denied having used those terms in what was then Twitter and it was behind Goldberg’s sources. The retired Marine John Kelly, former Trump Cabinet Chief, later confirmed Goldberg’s account in an interview with CNN.

In Trump’s publication, he mentioned that story and said it was an “invented deception.”

Goldberg became the objective of the president’s wrath again last month after revealing that it was Inadvertently guest To the signal chat that consisted of several senior US officials, including the Secretary of Defense, Pete Heghseth, and Vice President JD Vance, in which they discussed the plans for the military attack of March 15 against the Hutíes in Yemen before the air attack.

Trump’s officials and the White House criticized Goldberg, claiming that his report was partial.

“He is, as they know, a deafness bag, but at the highest level. His magazine is failing,” Trump said about Goldberg on March 26 during an appearance in the “Vince Show” podcast.

Goldberg has repeatedly defended his reports on the scandal.

“They have decided to blame the guy who invited the conversation. It is a bit strange behavior,” he told ABC News in March. “Honestly, I don’t know why they are acting like this, except to think they are, they know how serious a national security violation is. And so they have to divert it and push it to the guy, again, they invited the chat, namely me.”