Please Listen to Trump Get Prank Called on Air Force One
Getting a phone call connected to Air Force One, even if you’re someone without any sort of prestige or military or diplomatic rank whatsoever, is apparently about as challenging as using sleight of hand on a dog—a really gullible dog who swallows car keys and constantly runs into the same glass door.
John Melendez, aka “Stuttering John” of Howard Stern fame, got President Trump on the phone Thursday by pretending to be Sen. Bob Menendez, Democrat of New Jersey. Audio of the call was played on Melendez’s podcast and is nothing short of fucking amazing. (The call begins at around 1:08:00)
The call is both a stunning lapse in White House security and an impressive feat of social engineering on the part of Stuttering John.
Citing someone with knowledge of the call, however, Axios claims White House staffers are “freaking out” over the incident, trying to figure out how the call got connected in the first place. Earlier in the day, Politico White House correspondent Annie Karni said Trump’s staff was “scrambling to figure out how this happened.”