Tomi Lahren on Signal controversy: 'Admit the F up and move on'

Conservative political commentator Tomi Lahren weighed in on the Signal group chat controversy, arguing that President Trump’s administration should “admit the F up and move on." However, she contended that no one should be fired over the incident. 

“Trying to wordsmith the hell outta this signal debacle is making it worse. It was bad. And I’m honestly getting sick of the whatabout isms from my own side. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander. Admit the F up and move on,” Lahren, a Fox News media contributor, wrote in a Wednesday post on the social platform X. 

The Atlantic Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg shared in a Monday bombshell report that he was inadvertently added to a Signal group chat where the Trump administration’s top national security leaders discussed plans to strike Houthi rebels in Yemen. It appeared that the officials, including national security adviser Mike Waltz, who added Goldberg, did not notice that the journalist was on the thread. 

Trump and his top aides have since pushed back on Goldberg’s reporting, claiming that classified information was not shared in the Signal chat that the outlet initially withheld from publishing in the Monday report. The Atlantic’s editor released additional group chat messages on Wednesday that included the weapons the U.S. used in the attack on Houthi rebels and the timing of the strikes that took place earlier this month. 

Trump on Tuesday stood by Waltz and other officials that were in the Signal thread. On Wednesday morning, the president said the fresh messages The Atlantic published are “really not a big deal.” 

Lahren, who hosts the “Tomi Lahren is Fearless” show on Outkick, said in another X post that she does not “want to see anybody fired or for anybody to resign over this.”  

“It was an F up,” Lahren wrote. “The first and most simple way to address it is just to acknowledge it was an F up. That’s it. Don’t let the instinct to cover your ass and save face even slightly taint an administration filled with accomplishment and early success!!”