As the Times recounts in an October 2018 article entitled “When Trump Phones Friends, the Chinese and the Russians Listen and Learn,” Trump regularly uses multiple personal iPhones—it is not clear why he has more than one—to “call[] old friends … to gossip, gripe, or solicit their latest take on how he is doing,” often discussing topics of sufficient gravity that his words provide “invaluable insights” on U.S. domestic and foreign policy to anyone listening in on the line.
