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Donald Trump’s iPhone only has one app

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Trump sticks to the app he knows best.
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Being the the Leader of the Free World usually comes with phenomenal benefits most U.S. citizens only dream of, but apparently the perks don’t extend to the iPhone.

Despite calling for a boycott on Apple during his campaign, President Donald Trump’s smartphone of choice is still an iPhone, according to a new report that reveals how locked down the device is.

Trump’s staff has allegedly been trying to force him to be more disciplined by limiting his TV watching and screen time with the iPhone. To pull this off, Trump’s iPhone now only has a single app: Twitter.

On his road to the presidency and first few months in the Oval Office, Trump used both an iPhone and an unsecured Android phone to bang out his sensational tweets. The use of the Android phone concerned security experts who were worried the device could be hacked to exploit the president or worse.

It appears that Trump’s staff has finally gotten serious about security. Trump switched to an iPhone in March because it is more secure and receives security updates more frequently than Android phones.

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3 responses to “Donald Trump’s iPhone only has one app”

  1. digitaldumdum says:

    “Donald Trump’s iPhone only has one app”

    I suspect that while there may be one app on the bloated baboon’s iPhone, he does have several books in his iBooks library:

    Mein Kampf
    How To Improve Your Dictator Skills for Dummies
    The First-Grader’s Guide to American History (likely never completely downloaded)
    The Art of the Steal
    How To Push Your Way to the Front of the Crowd
    How To Insult People Without Even Trying
    The Bathroom Reader’s Guide to Hate, Lies and Greed
    and
    The Idiot’s Guide to More Effective Cheating and Lying

    I’m also guessing that if he has even •one• more app, it’s one of the mirror-type apps that lets him look at himself quickly without being noticed.

  2. digitaldumdum says:

    “Donald Trump’s iPhone only has one app”

    I suspect that while there may be only one app on the so-called “President’s” iPhone, he does have several books in his iBooks library:

    How To Improve Your Dictator Skills for Dummies
    The First-Grader’s Guide to American History (likely never completely downloaded)
    The Art of the Steal
    How To Push Your Way to the Front of the Crowd
    How To Insult People Without Even Trying
    The Bathroom Reader’s Guide to Hate, Lies and Greed
    The Idiot’s Guide to More Effective Cheating and Lying
    and
    Mein Kampf

  3. Luke Beauchamp says:

    He should use a BlackBerry. They’re more secure. Barrack Obama used a BlackBerry when he was the president.

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