United States| Lexington
The cover-up is worse than the group chat
A wiser president would admit a lapse and be grateful for the chance to prevent a more devastating blunder
An illustrtion of the Pentagon with the Signal logo at the centre and emojis all around it.
Illustration: David Simonds
Leave it to Vice-President J.D. Vance, the most media-savvy and self-assured of Donald Trump’s media-savvy, self-assured disciples, to make the most penetrating observation: “I think we are making a mistake,” he wrote on March 14th on Signal, a messaging app, to Mr Trump’s top national security officials.