Vance really is like Trump's sons, Uday & Qusay. Smug, self-satisfied, a troll, thinks he's funny (and he's never funny)
“Anything going on?”: Vance returned to Hegseth’s Signal group chat to joke about scandal
The inspector general's report revealed that the vice president made light of the controversy
By Alex Galbraith
Nights and Weekends Editor
https://www.salon.com/2025/12/04/anything-going-on-vance-returned-to-hegseths-signal-group-chat-to-joke-about-scandal/
The Department of Defense‘s inspector general released a damning report on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth‘s use of app-based group chats to discuss sensitive information on Thursday, finding that Hegseth’s failure to follow protocol could have put US troops in harm’s way.
The scandal around accidentally including an editor at the Atlantic in sensitive discussions of upcoming strikes in Yemen was an early black mark against Hegseth and the Trump administration generally. While the controversy was unfolding, however, Vice President JD Vance returned to the discussion to crack jokes.
Following The Atlantic breaking the news of the Hegseth DOD’s troubling security lapse, Vance returned to the chat to joke about the furor surrounding Signalgate.
“This chat’s kind of dead. Anything going on?” Vance wrote.