{"id":848,"date":"2025-03-26T00:32:24","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T00:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gunnewsusa.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/26\/trump-officials-call-europe-freeloading-pathetic-in-leaked-chat\/"},"modified":"2025-03-26T00:32:27","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T00:32:27","slug":"trump-officials-call-europe-freeloading-pathetic-in-leaked-chat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunnewsusa.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/26\/trump-officials-call-europe-freeloading-pathetic-in-leaked-chat\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Officials Call Europe &#8220;Freeloading, Pathetic&#8221; In Leaked Chat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"\"><\/div>\n<p>Trump officials were also discussed the US&#8217; upcoming Yemen war plans on Signal messaging app.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"Art-exp_wr\" id=\"ignorediv\">\n                                        <!-- Story Text --><br \/>\n                                                                                <b class=\"place_cont\">Washington: <\/b><\/p>\n<p>US President Donald Trump accused European nations of &#8220;freeloading&#8221; Tuesday, agreeing with reported comments by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in a leaked chat on Yemen air strikes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yeah I think they&#8217;ve been freeloading,&#8221; Trump told reporters when asked if he agreed with what The Atlantic magazine quoted Hegseth as saying in a conversation on the Signal app, to which a journalist was accidentally added.<\/p>\n<p>In the chat, a user identified as Vice President JD Vance opposed the strikes saying that &#8220;I just hate bailing Europe out again&#8221; and a user identified as Hegseth replies: &#8220;I fully share your loathing of European freeloading. It&#8217;s PATHETIC.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--MIDTABOOLA--><\/p>\n<p><i>(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)<\/i><\/p>\n<p>                                        <!-- Featured Video --><br \/>\n                                                                                                                        <!-- Recommended Widget -->\n                                                                                                                    <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump officials were also discussed the US&#8217; upcoming Yemen war plans on Signal messaging app. Washington: US President Donald Trump accused European nations of &#8220;freeloading&#8221; Tuesday, agreeing with reported comments by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in a leaked chat on Yemen air strikes. &#8220;Yeah I think they&#8217;ve been freeloading,&#8221; Trump told reporters when asked if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":849,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunnewsusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunnewsusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunnewsusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunnewsusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunnewsusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gunnewsusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":850,"href":"https:\/\/gunnewsusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions\/850"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunnewsusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunnewsusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunnewsusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunnewsusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}