Reacting to a report that someone in Donald Trump’s entourage who went with him to Alaska left sensitive State Department documents on a public hotel printer, critics of the president pounced on yet another security breach since he took office.
According to a report from NPR on Saturday, Three guests staying at the Hotel Captain Cook, located 20 minutes away from Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson where the Russian and American president were meeting, discovered the documents that included names, meeting times, room locations, phone numbers and other details.
That led Jon Michaels, a professor of law at UCLA who lectures about national security, to explain to NPR, "It strikes me as further evidence of the sloppiness and the incompetence of the administration.You just don't leave things in printers. It's that simple."
Commenters on social media agreed, with one critic writing, “What kind of idiots work for this moron.”
On Bluesky, frequent Trump critic “goldengateblond” referenced Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s “Signalgate“ scandal and quipped, “they literally left them in a public printer like it was a signal chat or something.”
Columnist D. Earl Stephens contributed, “They can ALWAYS be stupider.”
Vanity Fair contributor Molly Jong-Fast joked, “Like a well oiled machine.”
That led one of her followers to observe, “Printers are notoriously insecure and used to gain access to networked computers. But if I had to bet, I’d say they emailed it to the front desk to print. It just feels more like an old rich person thing to do and all the people around him seem to have no competency beyond whatever he gives them.”
Author and journalist Bailey McCann, wrote, “The fact that the probability that I will lose my right to vote because of my gender continues to grow by the day and it’s in service to the classified docs at an Alaska hotel, soft invasion of DC via the WV national guard regime is just so beyond.”
“Sloppy to the max. Oh, and another security breach. Circus clowns gonna act as one would expect,” wrote Trump critic Catherine in AZ.
Author Lynne Spreen noted the source of the exclusive report and commented, “Would this be the NPR as in National Public Radio that was defunded by this administration?”