The Breakfast Club - DONKEY: Mike Waltz Claims ‘Full Responsibility’ Over War Plans Leaked To Journalist

Episode Date: March 26, 2025

Charlamagne Tha God Gives Donkey of The Day To Mike Waltz Who Claims ‘Full Responsibility’ Over War Plans Leaked To Journalist. Listen For More!YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BreakfastClubPower1051FMSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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strategies for success. Listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. It's time for Donkey of the Day. It's a read, but you're so good at it. You better be a fake ass Charlemagne. The only one Charlemagne is on. Charlemagne. Oh. Damn, Charlemagne. Who do you think he's a ducky of the day to, man? Donkey of the Day for Wednesday, March 25,

goes to national security advisor Mike Walsh. Now, Mike Walsh accepted full responsibility Tuesday for accidentally including Atlantic magazine's editor in chief, Jeffrey Gold Goldberg in a signal group chat with discussions about military strikes against the, what is it, the Hooties? The Hootie Hoos, the Hooties, and Yeeman took place. Yes, if you haven't heard, top US officials, which apparently included Vice President J.D. Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hexf, National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, they added Jeffrey

Goldberg to a signal platform messaging group where classified military plans were being discussed. I can't make this kind of stuff up. Let's go to the news report, please. It's one of the most bizarre and potentially consequential national security lapses to reach the public forum. Top trump administration officials, including national security advisor Mike Waltz, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Vice President J.D. Vance and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard laid out plans about the U.S.'s attack on the Houthis in Yemen before putting it into action. The chat over the unauthorized encrypted messaging app Signal accidentally invited in on the conversation editor-in-chief of the Atlantic Jeffrey

Goldberg. at 11 44 a text in this chain from to be Pete Hegseth who pro only call it only call a just sort of wait with my is a real thing. Sure enou time. I see that Yemen is White House confirmed the messages Goldberg reported were authentic.

Hegseth then went after and dismissed the reporting itself. Nobody was texting war plans and that's all I have to say about that. Jesus Christ. That was ABC News for the report. At this point, who is God letting executive produce America? This dramedy is hilarious. Is it Lorne Michaels, maybe even Kean Peele, the Wayans Brothers, Dave Chappelle, and Neil Brennan?

Maybe, I don't know. Look, I don't even know how satire is even a thing nowadays because life itself is a spoof. Now remember what I said earlier, Mike Waltz is taking full responsibility. Let's listen. It's embarrassing, yes. We're gonna get to the bottom of it. We have, I just talked to Elon on the way here, we've got the best

technical minds looking at how this happened. But I can tell you, I don't know this guy. I know him by his horrible reputation and he really is the bottom scum of journalists. And I know him in the sense that he hates the president, but I don't text him. He wasn't on my phone, and we're going to figure out how this happened. So you don't know what staffer is responsible for this right now? Well, look, a staffer wasn't responsible, and look, I take full responsibility.

I built the group. My job is to make sure everything's coordinated. But how does that number... I mean, I don't mean to be pedantic here, but how did the number get into check? Have you ever had somebody's contact that shows their name, and then you have somebody else's number there? Oh, I never make those mistakes. Right?

You've got somebody else's number on someone else's contact. So of course I didn't see this loser in the group. It looked like someone else. Now, whether he did it deliberately, or it happened in some other technical mean is something we're trying to figure out. First of all, that's an admission to guilt.

Okay, Mike Waltz said, I take full responsibility. I built the group. My job is to make sure everything is coordinated. Cool, so now Trump knows who to fire, right? This level of incompetence can't be corrected. What am I bad? I mean, we talking classified military plans being discussed over Signal.

What, WhatsApp wasn't available? Sidebar, I've had so many people try to get me on signal since signal been signaling and I never understood why people wanted to get on that app. When people say it's because you can have top secret conversations and nobody can see them, it's encrypted. I'm like y'all really believe that? Okay that's actually the easiest way to get people's information. If I wanted to get everybody's top secret convos I would create an app that's available for anyone to download and I would tell them everything on here is secret and nobody will see it and boom!

Now I got you in your top secret war plans. Now, Mike Waltz has accepted full responsibility. Okay, this is what he said, but I need y'all to understand that when you accept full responsibility, that means you and you alone are responsible. Mike, Mike Walsh didn't do that. In fact, all he did was blame Jeffrey Goldberg, who didn't have to be in this group chat to begin with. Let's hear that again. I don't know this guy. I know him by his horrible reputation,

and he really is the bottom scum of journalists. Uh, and I know him, uh, in the sense that he hates the president, but I don't text him. He wasn't on my phone, uh, and we're gonna figure out how this happened. This is not what full responsibility looks like okay this is not what taking full responsibility looks like. Mike you already said you are the person who coordinated this you and you alone invited Jeffrey Goldberg to this group chat. Imagine being the person who got invited somewhere they didn't want to be in the first place okay the party is

trash and the party promoter blames you for the party being wack. I ain't even have to be here, okay? If I'm such a loser, why do you have my number to begin with? Why would you have your boss's op in your phone? You said I'm an antagonist of Trump. No, I'm a person who calls out BS when I see it

and this guy, Jeffrey Goldberg, was exposed to the incompetence of some of our top US officials and he decided to do the right thing and share that with the public, okay? Mike Waltz, I would have respected it if you would have said this was stupid, we were incompetent, I was incompetent,

it's my fault, therefore I'm stepping down. But no, that's not what anyone in the Trump administration likes to do. They take all the credit when something is good and deflect and blame others when something goes wrong. Mike Waltz. Mike Waltz. Mike Waltz. Always remember, it's easy to blame others when things are broken. The hard part is recognizing the part you played in it all. Please give Mike Waltz, the national security advisor, the biggest hee-haw. All right. You want them people to square it up with you so bad.

No, I don't. I just think that it's ridiculous to say you take full responsibility for something, but then as you're taking full responsibility, and I put that in air quotes, you're blaming the other person. And the fact that our top US officials are discussing military plans on Signal.

Yep. Signal. Men always been dumb in the group chat. That's been a thing for centuries. You know what? You absolutely right. Mm-hmm. You're absolutely right. Well, thank you for that donkey of the day. Mm-hmm. If you're injured, go to MichaelTheBull.com. That's MichaelTheBull.com. And when you mess with the bull, you get the horns. Wake that ass up.

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Anti-Racism Spin Class, and mandatory Ayahuasca ceremonies are designed to force the cancel to confront their worst impulses. But everything starts to fall apart when people start disappearing. Karen, where have you brought us? Cancellation Island, where a second chance might just be your last. Listen to Cancellation Island on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Do you remember what you said the first night I came over here? How goes lower?

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The Edge of Daybreak recorded their debut album, Behind Bars. Record collectors consider it a masterpiece. The band's surviving members are long out of prison, but they say they have some unfinished business. The Edge of Daybreak, Eyes of Love, was supposed to they have some unfinished business. They had a dead break, eyes of love, but supposed to have been followed up by another app. Listen to Soul Incarcerated on the iHeart Radio app,

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