By Rudy Giuliani isn't happy. He's not happy at all. First of all, the ruddy Mueller investigation is getting right on his wick. Secondly, Twitter is not being fair at all - AT ALL - to himself and other Republicans. And now some little bugger has decided to invade his text.
Basically what happened was that rather than redrafting an anti-Mueller tweet which had got out of hand, Giuliani started deleting spaces between words.
Now, because .in is the Indian equivalent of .co.uk, that meant he accidentally created a hyperlink to the address g-20.in. Obviously, a marketing director called Jason Velazquez then went and bought the domain name and used it to put up a single page reading "Donald J Trump is a traitor to our country".
Marvellous. Giuliani hasn't had a spectacularly successful time of it on Twitter lately.
How do you even type a degree symbol by accident? The machinery around Trump is clearly vexed by technology. This is a man who reportedly refers to his iPad as "the flat one". For all that he knows how to leverage Twitter outrage into free publicity, Trump himself has roughly the same general tech-literacy as 1880s Republican heartthrob Grover Cleveland. Here are his best wrangles with tech:
Trump Versus 'The Cyber'
The first presidential debate in 2016 suggested getting through to Trump on tech is like trying to explain differential equations to a cow. "As far as the cyber, I agree to parts of what Secretary Clinton said," Trump said when asked about cyberwarfare. "We should be better than anybody else, and perhaps we’re not." He vowed to "get very, very tough on cyber... The security aspect of cyber is very, very tough. And maybe, it's hardly doable."
Trump Versus Sir Tim Berners-Lee
"We came in with the Internet. We came up with the Internet," Trump said during that same debate. "And I think Secretary Clinton and myself would agree very much, when you look at what ISIS is doing with the Internet, they’re beating us at our own game. ISIS." London-born Sir Tim must have been pissing blood.
Trump Versus Emails
The conservative commentator Erick Erickson wrote a nice column about Trump back in 2016, and told Politico that Trump wanted to email him to say thanks. However, Trump decided the easiest way to do this was to scrawl a message on a bit of paper with a Sharpie and get an assistant to send it as an image in an email. "He gets his emails printed out, and he reads and annotates them and sends them back as a PDF," Erickson said.
Trump Versus Phone Security
The New York Times reported that before he became president - and, to the horror of his aides, furtively after he had actually become president - Trump did most of his tweeting from an unsecured Android phone. Not particularly savvy.
Trump Versus Computers Generally
That mistrust of tech bled through to the Trump Organisation at large, which sounds like it was run as a living museum, as if the open-air Victoriana museum Beamish had opened a 1980s New York island next to its . "Until a couple years ago, there were no computer terminals on some of the desks at the Trump Organisation. He doesn’t browse the Web," Trump's longtime adviser and suspected election-tampering Russian go-between Roger Stone told Politico. "Until about four years ago, he was still using bicycle messengers. They were very popular in Manhattan in the 1980s."
Trump Versus All Television Which Is Not Directly Made And Broadcast By Himself
Yeah, think someone got there ahead of you mate.
