**Ronny Chieng Takes a Jab at Trump Administration’s Signal Chat Fiasco**

*The Daily Show*’s Ronny Chieng has expressed his views on the now-notorious Signal group chat involving U.S. officials, where discussions about bombing Yemen took place—unbeknownst to them, *The Atlantic* editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg had been inadvertently included in the conversation by national security advisor Michael Waltz.

“Is anyone else slightly annoyed that we’re waging war through emojis now?” Chieng quipped, referring to Waltz’s use of emojis to respond to the airstrike intentions.

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Chieng also critiqued the Republican party’s mixed responses to the scandal. He highlighted how they simultaneously labeled the leak a blunder, questioned Goldberg’s credibility as a journalist, and asserted that the chat actually showed the officials’ competencies.

“So this journalist who is untrustworthy and terrible is also right,” Chieng commented. “You can’t say ‘it was an error’ and ‘it was misinformation’ at the same time. You need to choose one.”

In his trademark comedic style, Chieng humorously empathized with the officials, stating they were “merely doing their best to take lives.”

He further emphasized how catastrophic it would be if anyone’s private group conversations were revealed. “I assure you that if anyone in this crowd had their group chats uncovered, it would ruin each and every one of your lives,” he joked. “I personally have chats that are far more sensitive than a missile strike on the Houthis. If you told me my group chats were leaked, and then clarified it was just my missile attack one, I’d be like, ‘Oh my god, thank goodness, thank goodness.'”