Donald Trump propelled himself into the White House in large part by slamming his opponent for using a private server and potentially putting national security at risk, a transgression he claimed was grave enough to merit prison time. In fact, as recently as yesterday, his supporters were chanting, “Lock her up” at a rally in Mosinee, Wisconsin, while they waited for their Lord and Savior to arrive. Strangely, though, no one has had anything to say about the fact that the president apparently makes a regular habit of using phones that have reportedly been compromised by Chinese and Russian intelligence sources, for the simple reason that he’s too damn lazy to follow protocol.

The New York Times reports that when Trump isn’t screaming at the TV for four to six hours a day, he’s calling old friends and/or Fox News hosts to “gossip, gripe, or solicit their latest take on how he is doing.” This is a practice born out of long-standing habit—at times, the president’s cadre of outside advisers has seemed to outnumber the ones who actually work in the White House. And it wouldn’t necessarily be an issue, if it weren’t for the fact that Chinese spies (and Russians, too) listen in on these conversations—not because they’ve developed sophisticated technology to intercept the president’s chats, but because Trump is too stupid and stubborn to use the secure White House landline. Instead, per the Times, he sometimes uses a “personal phone that is no different from hundreds of millions of iPhones in use around the world.” Even if he did use one of the two iPhones that have been altered by the National Security Agency to limit their vulnerabilities, it wouldn’t make much of a difference, as Trump reportedly refuses to adhere to even the basic precautionary measure of swapping the devices out every 30 days because it’s “inconvenient.” And the Chinese can hardly believe their good fortune.

Current and former officials said they have also determined that China is seeking to use what it is learning from the calls—how Mr. Trump thinks, what arguments tend to sway him and to whom he is inclined to listen—to keep a trade war with the United States from escalating further. In what amounts to a marriage of lobbying and espionage, the Chinese have pieced together a list of the people with whom Mr. Trump regularly speaks in hopes of using them to influence the president, the officials said.