NYT: Trump Still Has His Unsecured Cell Phone To Keep Him Company

Donald Trump talks on his phone during a recess in the second day of the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board hearings at the Pennsylvania State Museum in Harrisburg, Pa., Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2006. (AP Photo/Daniel Shanken)
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President Donald Trump is living in the White House, but he has held on to his unsecured Android cell phone, according to a New York Times report.

Per the Times, Trump uses his phone when he’s alone at his new home:

Mr. Trump’s wife, Melania, went back to New York on Sunday night with their 10-year-old son, Barron, and so Mr. Trump has the television — and his old, unsecured Android phone, to the protests of some of his aides — to keep him company. That was the case after 9 p.m. on Tuesday, when Mr. Trump appeared to be reacting to Bill O’Reilly’s show on Fox News, which was airing a feature on crime in Chicago.

It appears that Trump’s latest tweets were sent from an Android device, suggesting that he used his unsecured personal cell phone at the White House.

The latest news follow a New York Times report last week that Trump had handed in his unsecured Android for a secure device, as former President Barack Obama did.

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