Trump’s iPhone Is a Warning Sign
Bad presidents don’t usually cause immediate catastrophes. But their smaller failures always add up.
Hang up.
Photographer: Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post
Sometimes, all it takes is one story to remind us that President Donald Trump, 21 months in, remains wildly unfit for office.
In this case, it’s Matthew Rosenberg and Maggie Haberman in the New York Times detailing Trump’s persistent use of an unsecured mobile phone. It’s one of those stories in which every paragraph contains a new “wow” – beginning, as usual, with the existence of the story itself. The piece is sourced to “several current and former officials” who talked “out of frustration with what they considered the president’s casual approach to electronic security.” In other words: Apparently nothing else worked, so they’re taking a stab at public pressure.
The revelations in this story? I counted eight blockbusters: