When it comes to national security, appearances matter a ton, and any president that doesn't understand that is putting the US at great risk. Wars are started

When it comes to national security, appearances matter a ton, and any president that doesn't understand that is putting the US at great risk. Wars are started on appearances not on reality. Everything goes into managing it. The US used to be viewed as a strong ally, but Trump has already made the US into a weak, unreliable ally. Being a weak ally makes the US weaker, because it greatly lowers the overall expectation of aid should the US enter war. Now Trump is making the US look weak by letting leak rink-a-dink security moves, transmitting to the entire world that the President is scared of Iran, and willing to look weak when there are threats. Contrast this with Zelenskyy going out on the streets of Kyiv when Putin was said to have teams of special ops out hunting to kill Zelenskyy. That's what strength is, and what leadership is. Whoever let this leak in Trump's administration did a grave disservice to the US (and to Trump too, but really I only care about the US, not any particular president).