NewsNation’s Chris Cuomo had had “enough” with the media’s obsession with the non-scandal of the Trump Cabinet Signal chat. Declaring “this is not a major scandal,” Cuomo knocked both sides for how they were and were not addressing it. He even called out the media for coveting “scalps” they would not collect from reporting on it.
“I've got one word for the Signal saga: enough,” Cuomo exclaimed at the top of the show. “We all get what this is and what this is not. I say ENOUGH because we don't need to go through the same cycle of bologna that we did in the first administration.”
Cuomo huffed that “Trump won’t own it,” despite him not being involved at all with the Signal chat.
He broke the bad news to Trump’s detractors in the “media and the left” that their hyperventilating wouldn’t result in an apology nor the “scalps” their craved, and the best they’d get was some of those involved getting sent to the ends of globe for a little bit:
We get it. Trump won't own it. There will be no apology. Media and the left you want scalps, you're not getting them from this. Hegseth is getting sent to Guam, Waltz is going to Greenland, and that is as close to banished either will be for now.
He also spelled out that the lesson was learned and that administration officials were admitting it behind the scenes:
There is no mystery here. The Trump folks know they messed up. They're saying it on camera. They're certainly saying it on background. But they also would rather be in this fight, then not. You've got to remember that. If they're fighting against how the left is against them and the media and this and there’s a hoax and that; they do that all day rather than have to deal with several other fronts that I am going to talk about tonight. So, let’s just be straight about it.
The opening monologue then pivoted to defending Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg for how he handled the situation and scoffed at those who said he should done something else besides report on it (Click “expand”):
The reporters, not the problem. We get the idea. ‘He's a lefty, his wife’s a lefties, he’s not to be believed.’ You don’t say that about the Fox folk right? They should all be part of the administration. But this guy, he shouldn't be believed by MAGA.
Oh, and he should have alerted the Trump team right away and taken himself off the thread. You show me a reporter who says that's what they would have done and I'll show you a liar, okay?
Now, tell me this if Goldberg’s such a hater, why did he alert Waltz at all? Think about it. Is that what a hater would do?
“Bottom line. The Trumpers were clearly sharing classified information. It was wrong the way that they communicated it on Signal and they included the reporter. Not a hoax. He did nothing wrong,” Cuomo argued.
Cuomo continued his rant by taking swings at “the non-Trump media” for ignoring how “the operation they were talking about was a success.” “No one was hurt by this comms error –and it was an error, but nobody got hurt because of it. So, this is not a major scandal,” he declared.
“Now, if they do it again, if it compromise information, if it hurts people because that information gets out, then there's going to be an axe involved,” he added. “But for right now, enough.”
The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read:
NewsNation’s Cuomo
March 27, 2025
8:00:28 p.m. EasternCHRIS CUOMO: I've got one word for the Signal saga: enough! We all get what this is and what this is not. I say ENOUGH because we don't need to go through the same cycle of bologna that we did in the first administration.
We get it. Trump won't own it. There will be no apology. Media and the left you want scalps, you're not getting them from this. Hegseth is getting sent to Guam, Waltz is going to Greenland, and that is as close to banished either will be for now.
There is no mystery here. The Trump folks know they messed up. They're saying it on camera. They're certainly saying it on background. But they also would rather be in this fight, then not. You've got to remember that. If they're fighting against how the left is against them and the media and this and there’s a hoax and that; they do that all day rather than have to deal with several other fronts that I am going to talk about tonight. So, let’s just be straight about it.
The reporters, not the problem. We get the idea. ‘He's a lefty, his wife’s a lefties, he’s not to be believed.’ You don’t say that about the Fox folk right? They should all be part of the administration. But this guy, he shouldn't be believed by MAGA.
Oh, and he should have alerted the Trump team right away and taken himself off the thread. You show me a reporter who says that's what they would have done and I'll show you a liar, okay?
Now, tell me this if Goldberg’s such a hater, why did he alert Waltz at all? Think about it. Is that what a hater would do?
Bottom line. The Trumpers were clearly sharing classified information. It was wrong the way that they communicated it on Signal and they included the reporter. Not a hoax. He did nothing wrong.
And yes, there's another aspect that the non-Trump media ignores: the operation they were talking about was a success. The Houthis suck and were coming for us. No one was hurt by this comms error –and it was an error, but nobody got hurt because of it. So, this is not a major scandal.
Now, if they do it again, if it compromise information, if it hurts people because that information gets out, then there's going to be an axe involved. But for right now, enough.
Enough with deceiving Congress with the BS ‘I don't recalls. I don't recalls. I don't recalls.’ I thought that this – you guys were going to be different, though you're going to be better than the “establishment” than the “elite” and their “games” [uses air quotes]. You do the same things that you say you were against! And from Congress, of course, you get the gotcha questions. That's all it's about. They can't get to the bottom of anything.
And enough with the Trump triple step: lie, deny, defy. We lived it again and again during the first term. New players, same game plan on display.
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