Trump to meet with the Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg today
Maya Yang
Donald Trump will meet with Jeffrey Goldberg, the Atlantic’s editor-in-chief, today.
In a post on Truth Social on Thursday, Trump wrote:
Later today I will be meeting with, of all people, Jeffrey Goldberg, the Editor of The Atlantic, and the person responsible for many fictional stories about me, including the made-up HOAX on ‘Suckers and Losers’ and, SignalGate, something he was somewhat more ‘successful’ with.”
Trump went on to say that Goldberg is bringing along with him the Atlantic’s reporters Michael Scherer and Ashley Parker. He added that he was told by his representatives that the story the Atlantic is writing will be called “The Most Consequential President of this Century.”
I am doing this interview out of curiosity, and as a competition with myself, just to see if it’s possible for The Atlantic to be ‘truthful.’ Are they capable of writing a fair story on ‘TRUMP’?” he said in his Truth Social post.
In March, Goldberg found himself in the center of a scandal when White House national security adviser Mike Waltz accidentally added Goldberg into a private Signal group chat in which senior members of Trump’s administration – including vice president JD Vance and defense secretary Pete Hegseth – discussed attack plans on Yemen.
Following the Atlantic’s reporting of the group chat, Trump spun the scandal as not a major security breach by his administration but rather a media lapse.
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Trump expected to sign deep-sea mining executive order on Thursday – report
Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order on Thursday to advance the deep sea mining industry, the latest attempt to tap international deposits of nickel, copper and other critical minerals used widely across the economy, Reuters reports.
The order will likely fast track permitting for deep-sea mining in international waters and let mining companies bypass a United Nations-backed review process, Reuters previously reported.
Trump has taken several steps already to boost domestic production of critical minerals and combat China’s dominance of the industry that supplies the raw materials needed for a wide range of modern technologies and industries, especially those related to clean energy and defense.
Among other things, he has fast-tracked permitting on 10 mining projects across the United States and implemented an abbreviated approval process for mining projects on federal lands.
The International Seabed Authority – created by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, which the US has not ratified – has for years been considering standards for deep-sea mining in international waters, although it has yet to formalize them due to unresolved differences over acceptable levels of dust, noise and other factors from the practice.
Trump’s deep-sea mining order is likely to stipulate that the US aims to exercise its rights to extract critical minerals on the ocean’s floor, and to let miners bypass the ISA and seek permitting through the US Department of Commerce’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s mining code, Reuters previously reported.
