Donald Trump and his favorite security gap – his private cell phone

Unknown number on the cell phone display? For many a reason to reject the call. But that apparently does not apply to Donald Trump. As soon as the US President’s private cell phone rings, the latter take off the listener, even if the participant is unknown to him. This is reported by the American magazine “”, and relies on two anonymous sources.

Trump does not seem to worry that his private number of a wide number of people is known and thus is an enormous risk, writes the magazine. Security experts had warned him long before massive dangers, such as listening, forawing identity or unprepared calls with foreign heads. So far, internal attempts to control Trump and his open communication on the cell phone have failed.

Information from “The Atlantic” could “be” well over 100 “people owned by Trump’s number. Accordingly, MPs, friends, relatives, corporate bosses, celebrities, heads of state and journalists would call the US President on his private cell phone and chat with him-unattended from his consultants.

The editors of “The Atlantic” also tried her luck last March and called Trump’s private number. And indeed: with the words “Who is on?” I took the listener from Trump. Already after his election victory in November 2024, Trump is said to have broken with his well -wishers on the phone. “I have already had 20 heads of state on the apparatus. Everyone wants to crawl into my ass,” the magazine quotes an informant.

The US President should also have a preference for leaving voice messages. In a video on X (formerly Twitter), the American comic artist Scott Adams tells that he would have ignored a call from Florida. Later he heard Trump’s voice on his answering machine. He introduced himself with the words: “Here your favorite president speaks.” Trump would have just wanted to inquire about him after Adams made it public that he could suffer from the same cancer as Joe Biden and soon die.

A consultant confirmed “The Atlantic” that Trump actually likes to leave long voicemails because he is happy if the news was played. Sometimes he later even asked whether they would have passed his message.

Before the election victory, Trump should have been informed that Chinese hackers could listen to and collect information if he made calls on his personal cell phone. According to Chinese hackers in addition to Trump’s mobile phones and his vice candidate JD Vance, one would also have attacked the apparatus of people who were connected to the democratic candidate Kamala Harris. Even before Trump’s first election victory, Iranian hackers are said to have stolen data from Trump’s campaign and offered Bidens team ,.

Even then, Trump is said to have used his private cell phone. According to the “” he has an “old, unsecured smartphone” to post on social media. The Secret Service would have provided him with a tested and safe device when he took office. The US President is also said to have only used the mediation of the White House for phone calls from concern, as “The Atlantic” reports. In 2017 he accused his predecessor Barack Obama in a series of having heard him during the election campaign. As so often, he did not provide any evidence of this.