This whole Donald Trump debacle is extremely entertaining. It’s like train wreck at a circus.
Now, I can see why some people don’t find this funny. The idea of Trump as president is scary. But if I were a betting man, which I am, I’d say the likelihood of Trump calling the White House home is slim. So, until this thing is over, I’m going to have a little fun.
Without further ado, here are the most outrageous things Trump has said about technology:
Trump on Google
“Why doesn’t President Obama just get the people from Google to fix the failed website. In fact, why didn’t he use them in the first place!”
On Apple
“I think what you ought to do is boycott Apple until such time as they give that security number. How do you like that? I just thought of that … Boycott Apple!”
On Apple’s locked phone controversy
“I use both iPhone and Samsung. If Apple doesn’t give info to authorities on the terrorists I’ll only be using Samsung until they give info.”
On Apple stock
“I predicted Apple’s stock fall based on their dumb refusal to give the option of a larger iPhone screen like Samsung. I sold my Apple stock.”
On Amazon
“If @amazon ever had to pay fair taxes, its stock would crash and it would crumble like a paper bag. The @washingtonpost scam is saving it!”
On AOL
“What a STUPID deal for Verizon to buy AOL for $4.4 billion. AOL has been bad luck for everyone who touched it. Worth less than $1 billion!”
On T-Mobile
“T-Mobile service is terrible! Why can’t you do something to improve it for your customers. I don’t want it in my buildings.”
On Twitter
“Twitter will soon be irrelevant if lowlifes are so easily able to hack into accounts.”
On email
“I don’t do the email thing.”
On cyber warfare
“We’re losing a lot of people because of the Internet. We have to go see Bill Gates and a lot of different people that really understand what’s happening. We have to talk to them about, maybe in certain areas, closing that Internet up in some way. Somebody will say, ‘Oh freedom of speech, freedom of speech.’ These are foolish people. We have a lot of foolish people.”
On engineers
“We graduate two times more Americans with STEM degrees each year than find STEM jobs, yet as much as two-thirds of entry-level hiring for IT jobs is accomplished through the H-1B program. More than half of H-1B visas are issued for the program’s lowest allowable wage level, and more than eighty percent for its bottom two. Raising the prevailing wage paid to H-1Bs will force companies to give these coveted entry-level jobs to the existing domestic pool of unemployed native and immigrant workers in the U.S., instead of flying in cheaper workers from overseas. This will improve the number of black, Hispanic and female workers in Silicon Valley who have been passed over in favor of the H-1B program. Mark Zuckerberg’s personal Senator, Marco Rubio, has a bill to triple H-1Bs that would decimate women and minorities.”
On skill labor
“I’m changing. I’m changing. We need highly skilled people in this country. And if we can’t do it, we’ll get them in.”
On NASA
“It is very sad to see what @BarackObama has done with NASA. He has gutted the program and made us dependent on the Russians.”
On NASA… again
“You know, in the old days, [NASA] was great… right now, we have bigger problems — you understand that? We’ve got to fix our potholes. You know, we don’t exactly have a lot of money.”2015, Washington Post via Engadget
On online gambling
“This [online gambling] has to happen because many other countries are doing it and like usual the U.S. is just missing out.”
On Net Neutrality
“Obama’s attack on the internet is another top down power grab. Net neutrality is the Fairness Doctrine. Will target conservative media.”
On tweeting fake ISIS video
“Okay, well, you just, look, was it a hoax that he’s dragging the flag? Was that him? It looks like the same man to me. He was dragging a flag along the ground, and he was playing a certain type of music, and supposedly there was chatter about ISIS. Now, I don’t know, what do I know about it? All I know is what’s on the internet. And I don’t like to see a man dragging an American flag along the ground in a mocking fashion.”
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h/t VentureBeat