Europe fumes at Trump team's insults in leaked Signal chat
Source: Politico
Europe fumes at Trump team’s insults in leaked Signal chat
British forces already took part in strikes against Houthis, so don’t call us “freeloaders,” former defense secretary says.
March 25, 2025 6:27 pm CET
By Tim Ross, Esther Webber, Jacopo Barigazzi and Nicholas Vinocur
LONDON — Sometimes it’s better not to know what your so-called friends say behind your back. Case in point: When your closest ally calls you “pathetic,” accuses you of “free-loading” and says you should be made to pay for something you never knew they were going to do.
British and European officials and diplomats reacted with a mix of hurt and anger to the leak of private messages between top figures in Donald Trump’s U.S. government about plans for air strikes against Houthi rebels in Yemen.
According to The Atlantic, whose editor-in-chief was mistakenly added to the high-level group chat, Vice President JD Vance said he hated “bailing out Europe again” by launching the military action to protect shipping, mainly to benefit European trade. Defense secretary Pete Hegseth replied to Vance: "I fully share your loathing of European free-loading. It's PATHETIC."
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Read more: https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-fume-donald-trump-team-insult-leak-signal-chat/
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