Donald Trump goes berserk on Twitter and starts incoherently complaining about his iPhone

| 6:54 pm EDT October 25, 2019
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Earlier today we learned that Rudy Giuliani accidentally butt-dialed an NBC News reporter and gave away a bunch of secrets. Donald Trump apparently took this story as a challenge, because just now he posted a bizarre tweet that may or may not have been intended as a private communication of some kind, and it’s about his phone.

Here’s what Donald Trump just tweeted now: “To Tim: The Button on the IPhone was FAR better than the Swipe!” No really, that’s what he tweeted. The message is clearly addressed to Apple CEO Tim Cook (or should we say “Tim Apple”), but what kind of tweet is this? It almost reads like a failed attempt at a direct message. Also, who still spells it “IPhone” in 2019?

Donald Trump has been having a really bad day. His new “DOJ criminal inquiry” into the origins of the Trump-Russia probe is being widely panned, and it doesn’t even seem to be real anyway. A federal judge ruled today that the House impeachment inquiry is fully legitimate, and that House Democrats are entitled to the Mueller Report grand jury materials. And impeachment poll numbers continue to get worse for Trump.

It’s not clear if Donald Trump has posted this weird tweet about his iPhone as a weak attempt at distracting the media from today’s real news, or if he’s so far gone that he thinks tweet-whining about iPhone buttons is a valid way for the President of the United States to spend his time. In any case, as so often happens these days, Trump now has a phone faux pas that’s almost enough to get Rudy off the hook.