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Chris Michael

Photos reveal Trump cabinet member using less-secure Signal app knockoff

people sitting at a table as a man uses his phone
Mike Waltz checks his mobile phone while attending a cabinet meeting held by Donald Trump at the White House in Washington DC on 30 April 2025. Photograph: Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters

Photographs taken at Donald Trump’s cabinet meeting this week have revealed that top White House officials are now communicating using an even less secure version of the Signal messaging app than was at the center of a huge national security scandal last month.

The images, taken by Reuters on Wednesday, show the phone screen of Mike Waltz, the since-ousted national security adviser who last month accidentally included a journalist in a group chat in which top US officials discussed operational plans to bomb Yemen, attacks that were then carried out as described.

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