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Trump Ignores 'Inconvenient' Security Rules To Keep Tweeting On His iPhone, Says Report (politico.com)
According to Politico, "President Donald Trump uses a White House cellphone that isn't equipped with sophisticated security features designed to shield his communications." The decision is "a departure from the practice of his predecessors that potentially exposes him to hacking or surveillance." From the report: The president uses at least two iPhones, according to one of the officials. The phones -- one capable only of making calls, the other equipped only with the Twitter app and preloaded with a handful of news sites -- are issued by White House Information Technology and the White House Communications Agency, an office staffed by military personnel that oversees White House telecommunications. While aides have urged the president to swap out the Twitter phone on a monthly basis, Trump has resisted their entreaties, telling them it was "too inconvenient," the same administration official said. The president has gone as long as five months without having the phone checked by security experts. It is unclear how often Trump's call-capable phones, which are essentially used as burner phones, are swapped out.
Uh oh, someone with mod points doesn't like people pointing out when Trump does things he's railed against others for doing.
To mod that troll you must have completely missed the last thread and the hilariously outlandish way a couple people were dancing around trying to defend him, like "he's not stupid, he just says moronic things all the time and can't stay focused on anything". And "he doesn't really not know those things, he's just playing dumb to annoy Bill Gates". Or just hate that someone doesn't think recognize your boys brilliance, what with the way it's hurting the country and all. Never change, /.
He's made sure the US get to sell more stuff to China.
Possibly lowered the threat from NK and increase stability in the region.
Syria & Iraq seem to be going pretty well regardless of whom doing it.
He's doing what he said he'd do with Iran. No idea how that ends.
I don't know how the wall is going and relations with Russia seem to have weakened but I guess that may more be the result of the deep state rather than something Trump really wished.