This is nuts.
World leaders are trying to do diplomacy. Trump is screenshotting and posting private messages from heads of state like it’s a gossip session.
Jan 20, 2026 13:32He's showing off how powerful he is, that other world leaders want to appease him and bend down to him. And, sadly he's right. European leaders have learned nothing.
Ignoring Trump for a second: one of the reasons for the previously-existing system of secure communications was so that no US official would accidentally do what Trump is doing intentionally (blab secure comms on an open channel because you're using both at the same time).