The Rachel Maddow Show
War plans group chat scandal fits pattern of Trump's embarrassing weakness on information security
Wed, 26 Mar 2025
Rachel Maddow looks at Donald Trump's ridiculously poor track record of mishandling sensitive information, with the scandal of several of his top officials thoughtlessly discussing military plans in an insecure group text raising questions of criminality on top of the widespread outrage over the sheer sloppiness of their actions.
Chapter 1: Why are there protests happening across the United States?
Thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. Really happy to have you here. This was Philadelphia today, a protest to defend the EPA. Honk if you love clean water. This was Duluth, Minnesota today, another big turnout of people protesting to stand up for the EPA. This was Chicago, Illinois today, more people out defending the EPA. It was a big protest today in Chicago.
Good signs, lots of people. It was a picket and a protest. This sign says, factories today emit 1,500,000 tons less toxic air pollution than in 1990. Protect EPA workers, protect your family's health. I don't know who this person is at the Chicago protest, but may I commend you on excellent punctuation and grammar on that perfectly spelled sign. It's all perfect. A plus. Also a very good point.
This was Washington, D.C. today. Yet more people coming out to defend the U.S. post office. We saw a bunch of protests, people defending the post office last week. Then we saw just a huge number of protests for the post office this weekend. Now, today in Washington, D.C., people came out to say hands off the post office. USPS belongs to us.
This protest was based around rural letter carriers, people who deliver the mail in rural America. You see the signs there at the protest today in Washington. Rural America relies on the Postal Service. Also a good point, and very true.
If Donald Trump is going to abolish, effectively abolish the post office like he says he wants to, or privatize it like Elon Musk says he wants to, rural states will absolutely take the worst of it by a mile, which itself is going to be really interesting for rural red state Republicans in Washington trying to justify that to their constituents.
Yesterday, we saw marches to support immigrants in San Francisco, California, and in El Paso, Texas, including members of the clergy in El Paso. In South Carolina, pro-Trump Republican Congresswoman Nancy Mace has been refusing to meet with her constituents in the 1st Congressional District in South Carolina in the Lowcountry, a new local group called the Lowcountry Accountability Alliance.
has invited her to do a town hall with her constituents in her district this week on Friday. It does not appear that she is inclined to do that. In the meantime, they have put up these billboards in her district. Show your face, Mace. And missing Nancy Mace last seen dodging constituents.
That's happening in South Carolina, in Georgia, in Savannah, where constituents of Republican Congressman Buddy Carter have been protesting and demanding that he talk to them in an in-person town hall with his constituents. Last night, Congressman Buddy Carter instead opted to do a town hall by telephone.
He might have thought that might have kept it a more low profile event, but alas, more than 10,000 people called in.
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Chapter 2: How are Republican representatives responding to constituent demands?
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