The butt dial doesn’t discriminate-it is a hazard that everyone faces, a veritable epidemic. Yet the news of Giuliani’s accidental phone calls strikes a different chord, stirring a more generalized anxiety. But he is also being a good Trump Republican. When Giuliani grips his iPhone with ten thumbs and tweets the phrase “ Kimim ° has f,” he opens himself to the ridicule of millions. From “ covfefe” to the White House’s e-mailing of its impeachment talking points to Democratic lawmakers, tech blunders are such Trumpian hallmarks that they seem almost deliberate, part of a broader nihilistic project-flaunting incompetence and sowing chaos to own the libs. Of course, the spectre of a batty old man with a cell phone has taken on geopolitical significance in 2019, when a Presidential tweet has the power to jolt markets and disrupt the global order. At this very moment, thousands of elderly American men are glowering at the touch screens of Samsung Galaxy S8s, hurling epithets like Lear on the storm-lashed heath. In short, Giuliani represents a familiar twenty-first-century type: the Old Guy Who Can’t Figure Out His Phone. The incident came less than a month after Trump named Giuliani as his cybersecurity adviser. In February, 2017, Giuliani sought help at the Genius Bar of a San Francisco Apple store: he had been locked out of his iPhone after entering the wrong passcode at least ten times. Last week, Schapiro broke a new story about Giuliani’s travails. In a tweet on May 24th, Giuliani wrote, “ivesssapology for a video which is allegedly is a caricature of an otherwise halting speech pattern, she should first stop, and apologize for, saying the President needs an ‘intervention.’ Are.” An image posted alongside these words was equally baffling: a GIF showing members of the Atlanta Hawks celebrating a teammate’s dunk. Occasionally, Giuliani’s Twitter “burps” achieve the artful incoherence of Dadaist collage.
(One much memed Giuliani post read, in its entirety, “ You.”) Last month, Giuliani was briefly booted off of his Twitter account, after uploading screenshots that revealed the phone number of a top adviser to the Ukrainian President. Many tweets feature mangled syntax and weird punctuation others appear to have been launched into cyberspace prematurely. The Twitter account is one of the Internet’s most reliable suppliers of faux pas. For some time, Giuliani has been engaged in a public struggle with his digital devices. “The late-night Giuliani butt dial,” Schapiro writes, “came 18 days after a midafternoon Giuliani butt dial.”įollowers of current events will not be surprised by this news. We need a few hundred thousand,” Giuliani said.) It was the second time in recent weeks that Giuliani had inadvertently left a message on Schapiro’s phone.
There was also some vague conversation about financial matters. In the periodically garbled recording, Giuliani and an unidentified man could be heard discussing various dealings in Bahrain and Turkey. But Schapiro quickly deduced that Giuliani had left the voice mail by accident. The two men had spoken the previous evening, in connection with a story that Schapiro was reporting. A couple of weeks ago, a new plot twist in the saga of President Trump’s personal attorney reached the public in a bracing headline: “Rudy Giuliani Butt-Dials NBC News Reporter.” Rich Schapiro, an investigative journalist at NBC, woke up on the morning of October 17th, grabbed his cell phone, and found a voice-mail message from the former mayor of New York City.
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