Donald Trump’s Absolutely Baffling Claim About ‘Phone Apps’ Raises New Questions

The former president seemed out of touch as he tried to describe a basic feature of any smartphone.
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Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at Bayfront Convention Center in Erie, Pa., Sunday, Sept. 29, 2024.
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Donald Trump’s latest attack on migrants included an unexpected new twist: a reference to “phone apps” as if they are a little-known technology. 

Speaking in Wisconsin on Saturday, Trump claimed that Vice President Kamala Harris has an app that allows a “virtually unlimited” number of migrants to enter the country. 

“They have a phone app so that people can come into our country,” Trump said over the weekend. “These are smart immigrants, I guess because most people don’t have any idea what the hell a phone app is. But they do, these are very intelligent immigrants.” 

Trump’s critics served up a fact-check: