By 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.
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".
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.
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.
