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Signal's Founder Epically Roasts Vance Over The Disastrous Group Chat Debacle

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Matthew Rosenfeld, AKA Moxie Marlinspike, the founder of the Signal app at the center of the Trump administration's group text scandal, couldn't help but take a swipe at Vice President JD Vance.

Signal founder Matthew Rosenfeld, better known by the pseudonym Moxie Marlinspike, mocked Vice President J.D. Vance after the app found itself at the center of the Trump administration's group text scandal.

Rosenfeld's post came amid revelations that Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg was invited into a Signal chat with high-level Trump administration officials, particularly Vance and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, discussing military strategy surrounding war strikes in Yemen.


Naturally, the scandal has many questioning Vance's judgment—not that they weren't before—and interest in national security, including Rosenfeld, who was quick to troll Vance, writing:

"There are so many great reasons to be on Signal. Now including the opportunity for the vice president of the United States of America to randomly add you to a group chat for coordination of sensitive military operations. Don’t sleep on this opportunity…"

You can see what he wrote in the post below.

While the person who actually invited Goldberg into the chat was actually national security adviser Michael Waltz, people couldn't resist taking the opportunity to dunk on Vance themselves.


In the chat, Vance made a striking comment that seemed to diverge from President Donald Trump’s stance, questioning whether he realized that a solo U.S. strike on the Houthis to safeguard global shipping routes clashed with his frequent demands for European countries to contribute more to such international efforts.

Vance wrote, "I am not sure the president is aware how inconsistent this is with his message on Europe right now,” according to Goldberg. He also warned of “a moderate to severe spike in oil prices” and suggested there was “a strong argument for delaying this a month, doing the messaging work on why this matters, seeing where the economy is, etc.” Still, he said he was “willing to support the consensus of the team and keep these concerns to myself.”

Ultimately, Vance backed the strike, telling Hegseth, “if you think we should do it let’s go. I just hate bailing Europe out again,” according to Goldberg’s account.

After the exchange, William Martin, Vance’s communications director, insisted the vice president and Trump “are in complete agreement" and that Vance's "first priority is always making sure that the President’s advisers are adequately briefing him on the substance of their internal deliberations." Martin insisted Vance "unequivocally supports this administration’s foreign policy."

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