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Trump has an iPhone with one app: Twitter
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Trump retired his trademark Samsung device in March after taunting Schwarzenegger.
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Early in March, President Donald Trump surrendered his personal Android phone—the phone from which scores of controversial Twitter posts had been launched. Based on Twitter metadata, Trump retired the Android device after expressing outrage over the DNC's failure to let the FBI search its servers and taunting Arnold Schwarzenegger on March 5. The next day, he replaced it with an iPhone.
According to a report from Axios' Mike Allen, Twitter is the only application running on Trump's new iPhone. And on his current overseas trip, staff have tried to limit his screen time in order to reduce the volume of his 140-character missives, Allen wrote:
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- Trump himself has been pushing staff to give him more free time. But staff does everything it can to load up his schedule to keep him from getting worked up watching cable coverage, which often precipitates his tweets. It has worked well overseas so far.
On the plus side, the iPhone is likely more secure by default than the Android device he previously used: a Samsung Galaxy of unknown provenance. Trump reportedly received a secured mobile device from the Secret Service and White House Communications Agency shortly after his inauguration for voice communications. But that device, like the one President Barack Obama received last year, is locked down to the degree that the president can't install applications on it or even directly place phone calls. To tweet, he still had to retain a personal device (Trump is known not to use a personal computer).
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- Many of the tweets on Trump's two accounts in the past have been posted by Dan Scavino, the White House Director of Social Media and Trump's personal assistant. Scavino used an iPhone, which allowed his tweets to be distinguished from those that Trump himself had written. Now, it seems, there will be only one way to tell posts from the two apart: their content.
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