In between intimating that this week's attempted pipe-bombings targeted at Democrats were actually, really, if you think about it, kind of the fault of the media organisations and their "endless hostility", Donald Trump has been fending off accusations in a New York Times piece that security services are worried his phone calls are being tapped by Chinese and Russian intelligence services.

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The report says that intelligence officials know that China is using the president's chats with his confidantes to stop a trade war escalating, and are presumed to have put together a list of people Trump speaks to regularly who could be influenced. Trump, by contrast, found the article "long and boring".

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The so-called experts on Trump over at the New York Times wrote a long and boring article on my cellphone usage that is so incorrect I do not have time here to correct it. I only use Government Phones, and have only one seldom used government cell phone. Story is soooo wrong! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 25, 2018

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The New York Times has a new Fake Story that now the Russians and Chinese (glad they finally added China) are listening to all of my calls on cellphones. Except that I rarely use a cellphone, & when I do it’s government authorized. I like Hard Lines. Just more made up Fake News! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 25, 2018

It's not clear whether Trump meant that he likes using hardened, safer phone lines or if it was an unconnected thought about Pantera's metal classic 'Hard Lines, Hollow Cheeks', but what is clear is that both of those tweets were sent using the Twitter app for iPhone, as were eight of the tweets he sent on Wednesday.

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The President says he rarely uses a cell phone, but his tweets are posted via “Twitter for iPhone” pic.twitter.com/oSkxizHUEK — Sara Cook (@saraecook) October 25, 2018

This is very, very far from being the first time Trump become entangled with tech. There was the time he got very het up about "a computer that picks up the phone" and how a mysterious 'they' is "using the internet to take our children's minds", as well as the way he refers to anything more advanced than a Dreamcast as "the cyber".

Then there's the way he's described pretty much everything as going "bing", from Twitter to pressing buttons to the noise that shooting people in the old days made.

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