Trump’s top team rips into Europe in leaked war texts group chat – raging they ‘loathe’ having to bail out freeloaders’

TRUMP'S top team has launched an astonishing broadside against America's European Allies – branding them “pathetic free-loaders” in leaked messages mistakenly sent to a journalist.

The private Signal chat, used as a virtual war room by Trump’s national security heavyweights, was accidentally shared with Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg, who published the explosive texts.

Don's aides also vented their “loathing”; for bailing out the continent in the bombshell leak at the heart of the Trump White House.

In the exchange, Vice President JD Vance grumbled: “I just hate bailing Europe out again.”;

Trump’s Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth replied: “I fully share your loathing of European free-loading. It’s PATHETIC.”;

The disclosure reveals the degree of contempt within the Trump administration for Europe's contribution to global defense, with Ukraine at the centre of escalating transatlantic tensions.

Other messages saw officials wrangle over US strikes against Houthis in Yemen, with Vance warning they risked clashing with Trump’s hardline stance on Europe.

“I am not sure the president is aware how inconsistent this is with his message on Europe right now,”; he wrote.

“There’s a further risk that we see a moderate to severe spike in oil prices.”;

Trump national security adviser Mike Waltz, who reportedly added Goldberg to the chat, is now facing the sack – with one insider telling Politico: “Everyone in the White House can agree on one thing: Mike Waltz is a f***ing idiot.”;

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