‘By the way, I might be in this group chat, I don’t know. I don’t check my group chats,’ joked Stewart
Jon Stewart joked that US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth was distracted by "The White Lotus" when he leaked a top-secret military plan for an airstrike on Yemen to a journalist via a group chat. Stewart mocked the security breach on "The Daily Show," highlighting Hegseth's text stating "we are currently clean on OPSEC" and the journalist's disbelief until Yemen was bombed. Hegseth, questioned about the leak, chuckled and attacked the journalist involved.