The Trump Regime’s new “White House app,” billed on the Google Play store as keeping “you connected to President Donald J Trump and his administration like never before. Receive real-time breaking news alerts straight from the White House on key developments, executive actions, and national priorities. Stay up to date with the latest policy initiatives and topics shaping America’s future – from border security and economic growth to energy independence and making America great again,” is now required downloading for all federal employee work phones.

Or maybe not so much “required” as forced whether a federal worker likes it or not, according to a policy memo obtained by Government Executive saying that automatic downloads will begin next week on the phones of at least one unspecified federal agency’s workers. Sur-fucking-prise, it’s shovelware that cybersecurity researchers have warned is filled with all sorts of holes, such as its incorporation of a Russian software kit called Elfsight that one anonymous government cybersecurity researcher told NOTUS last week they had found that the code made public the personal information of some White House staffers through the app. The fucking White House even admitted this, saying “Elfsight went through a full security review by White House IT and was approved for use. This is a vulnerability on Elfsight’s side – and they have been informed of it.”

“Any app that is installed on government-issued devices can potentially create backdoor access to government networks behind the firewall,” said former federal IT executive Sonny Hashmi, almost certainly watering down the gravity of the move by keeping the statement simple.

“A button gives the option to ‘text President Trump,’ which, when clicked, opens a text message to a pre-selected number with the default text ‘Greatest President Ever!’ Sending the text signs the user up for alerts, which individuals can also do through the app itself,” GovExec writes in the article, blithely letting the app’s “feature” speak for itself to its public service employee readership.