Axios reports that our unpopular president, who we all think of as having the emotional and intellectual fortitude of an 11-year-old boy, really has the emotional and intellectual fortitude of a 9-year-old boy.
Top White House officials tell me the key to forcing a more disciplined President Trump (like the one onstage overseas) is limiting his screen time. In Trump's case, it's curtailing his time watching TV and banging out tweets on his iPhone.
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.
These are the “growing pains” of one of the most powerful decision makers on the planet right now. A grown man who doesn’t want to do his job or even attempt to get better at his job
because he’d rather veg out.
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 Axios, Trump’s new “secured” phone is only allowed to have his favorite
app, no more, no less. Here’s today’s Tweet:
Not true but whatevs! Here was one from the week before:
Not true, but Donnie is such a drama queen! The week before that:
I hope there ARE “tapes.” So it seems like having a single application and limited screen time is working wonders.