Donald Trump’s presidential campaign was marked by verbal attacks on his opponents, with the candidate aiming public criticism at everyone from Ted Cruz to Hillary Clinton, from Megyn Kelly to Gold Star father Khizr Khan. But now he’s got a new target for his complaints: the humble computer.
Speaking to reporters during his New Year’s Eve party at the exclusive Mar-a-Lago club in Florida, Trump addressed the thorny problem of cybersecurity. “I’ll tell you what: no computer is safe,” he said. “I don’t care what they say.” It was better, Trump said, to do things “the old-fashioned way” if you wanted true security. “You know, if you have something really important, write it out and have it delivered by courier,” the president-elect advised.
Trump has attacked the computer twice in one week
His remarks were part of an ongoing salvo against the computer, a device that Trump said had complicated lives greatly. “The whole, you know, ‘age of computer’ has made it where nobody knows exactly what’s going on,” he said to reporters last week. “We have speed and we have a lot of other things, but I’m not sure you have the kind of security you need.”
Donald Trump might be a prolific tweeter, but he’s seemingly much less comfortable around computers. The president-elect reportedly didn’t even keep a laptop in his office during his election campaign, and was awkwardly pictured hovering a single finger over a keyboard during his Reddit AMA. His tech naivete has been exposed in speeches, statements, and debates too, with his proclamations that the US had to “do cyber” better, and calls for Bill Gates to “close up” the internet.