With rallies halted and tweets fact-checked, Trump campaign turns to the 'Official Trump 2020' smartphone app
WASHINGTON - Should President Donald Trump and Twitter ultimately part ways, his campaign has a backup plan at the ready to get his voice out.
The Trump app, which was launched in April, has since often placed among the Top 10 in Apple's rankings of news apps, sometimes above those of individual news organizations such as CNN, the New York Times and Reuters. For supporters, the new app is where they can get the latest campaign news, watch campaign-produced, prime-time shows hosted by Trump allies and earn reward points for making phone calls or signing people up for the app.
Story continuesSigning into the app requires a cellphone number, which then allows the campaign to send the user regular text messages lauding Trump or asking for donations. But unlike Trump's app, it provides little information, such as social media streams or news releases. Nor does it connect to the virtual campaign events Biden has been holding nearly daily during the coronavirus pandemic. The app is not ranked by Apple as among its 200 most popular for news.
If they so choose, users can rely on the app as a primary, if heavily filtered, information source, one where Trump’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic is championed and the economy is poised for a quick recovery and the federal probe into Trump's collusion with Russia was a politically motivated hoax.
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