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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(137,429 posts)
Thu Oct 25, 2018, 08:16 PM Oct 2018

Trump Refutes iPhone Usage in Angry Tweet Sent From iPhone

President Trump began his Thursday morning by blaming the attempted assassination of his political adversaries on the media. He’d said as much the night before at a rally in Wisconsin, but his early-morning tweet seems to be inspired by a New York Times report about the president’s careless cell phone use, which has allowed China and Russia to listen in on his calls.

Less than half-an-hour before he attributed the “Anger we see today in our society” to the “Fake News,” Trump railed against the story in the Times.




Trump followed up his capitalized show of reverence to “Government Phones” by noting that he rarely even uses cell phones, preferring the far more dignified “Hard Lines.”




In April, CNN reported that Trump was beginning to use his cell phone with increasing frequency, and that, according to a senior White House official, he “is talking to all sorts of people on it.” The tweets he wrote Thursday morning refuting the story in the Times were sent using an iPhone.




https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-iphone-use-747145/
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Trump Refutes iPhone Usage in Angry Tweet Sent From iPhone (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2018 OP
Priceless! blue neen Oct 2018 #1
And it's not even from The Onion! Ohiogal Oct 2018 #2
so he doesn't read his own tweets... 0rganism Oct 2018 #3
He's distinguishing talking on a cell phone from using one to tweet. Ms. Toad Oct 2018 #4
He might as well put a sign on his back that says "hack me". Initech Oct 2018 #5

0rganism

(25,715 posts)
3. so he doesn't read his own tweets...
Thu Oct 25, 2018, 09:12 PM
Oct 2018

hell, he might not know how to read at all.

we truly have turned a corner here. perhaps these are false flag tweets?

Ms. Toad

(38,824 posts)
4. He's distinguishing talking on a cell phone from using one to tweet.
Thu Oct 25, 2018, 09:16 PM
Oct 2018

(Sine otherwise his comment about Hard Lines makes no sense - since you can't tweet from a "hard line" )

He's still almost certainly lying about not using a cellphone for phone calls. But unless we want to look as stupid as he does, we ought to apply a teeny bit of common sense when reading his tweets.

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