It is March and the lovely EnigMarch people have challenged puzzle designers to write a puzzle inspired by today's word: "random".

Oh no! The USA clown President Trump (egged on by his buffoonish adviser Elon Musk) has done something random! He… uh.

It's at this point that I'm supposed to pick our some action by the administration that fits the theme "random". I am overwhelmed by choice. Whoosh. Hoo boy. OK, hang on, I got this.

Today a reporter for the Atlantic reported that the Secretary of Defense and the Director of National Intelligence were sharing classfied files in a Signal chat room. They violated the espionage act, but probably thought they'd get away with it because Signal chat rooms can auto-delete messages after a while. But our drunkard Secretary of Defense added a reporter to the chat room and didn't even notice.

[Update: I got this wrong. It wasn't our drunkard Secretary of Defense who invited the reporter to the chat. It was National Security Advisor Michael Waltz. Though it's a safe bet that Hegseth is drunk at any given moment, it's not clear what Waltz's excuse was. I'm told that Waltz is stupid; but plenty of other people in that chat group are stupid, and they didn't make that mistake.]

Anyhow, I made you a cryptic crossword. I was still feeling overwhelmed by choice, so I used anagramming in every entry and always indicated it with "random." Enjoy!