Reporters caught Mike Waltz using Signal AGAIN—this time during Trump's last cabinet meeting

No, really. It's a real photo. And it shows just-canned national security adviser Mike Waltz hiding his phone under the table during Wednesday's grotesquely Trump-humping cabinet meeting.

I think it's safe to say we've gone beyond parody and into farce, at this point. The photo seems to suggest that much of Trump's top national security figures are using unauthorized privacy app Signal to, still, evade federal records laws mandating preservation of administration documents.

And while Signal encrypts messages so that the conversations had there can't be intercepted, foreign intelligence services are well able to install snooping programs on the unsecured smartphones Trump's (sigh) team appears to have installed the program on.

The Criminal announced today that Mike Waltz and Waltz's deputy were both being sent to a farm upstate where they could run and play with all the other dogs, and by that I mean Trump announced that Waltz was being booted from his position to become Trump's newest U.N. ambassador.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, who used Signal to share sensitive details about a U.S. military strike in advance of that strike being carried out, remains conspicuously unfired.

But let's all marvel at this little feat, shall we? Just on its own. Mike Waltz, supposedly the biggest national security bigshot in Trump's garbage patch o' deplorables:

• Was viewing Signal messages on his smartphone during a Cabinet meeting

• by tucking the phone underneath the table so that Trump himself wouldn't see

• in a room literally filled with journalists and their cameras

• in the midst of a scandal precipitated by Waltz and the other names on that phone using unsecured devices to chat about sensitive national security details

• which was itself discovered because the team accidentally added a member of the press to that chat.

Can it be topped? Can it? Can Waltz and the others pull off something even stupider, given a week or two to do it?

I'm sure they can. But, for the life of me, I can't imagine what it might look like. Maybe next we'll learn that the whole team has been texting Putin asking for bribe money, and we'll find it out because Tulsi Gabbard somehow managed to upload the conversation to a Times Square billboard.