Donald Trump , the seventy - year - old president of the United States of America , really loves his TiVo . This much is vindicated from a new Time magazineprofile on Trump , which focalise on what our nation ’s mercurial boss does after hours .
To no one ’s surprisal , the leader of the costless world spends a lot of time watching cable news program . But hidden in the article was this beautiful quotation , to what very much seems to be one of Trump ’s favorite things :
But for now , Trump is focused on his goggle box . He watches the screen door like a coach going over game magnetic tape , studying the opposition , plat next week ’s plays . “ This is one of the enceinte inventions of all sentence — TiVo , ” he says as he fast - forwards through the listening .
In fairness , TiVo is objectively one of the greatest inventions of all time . Before 1999 , recording TV require hooking up a VCR to your cable box or feeler and then having to deal with in truth archaic timer to set recordings . If everything worked aright , the season finale of Melrose Place would be recorded while you were on your way to Washington D.C. with your 5th grade class . But twenty yr afterwards , thanks to on - demand television , and streaming , DVRs feel sort of passé .
And yet , despite engineering ’s inevitable and monotonous way of making our lives more convenient , Trump still seems to favor the older method of TV recording . In fact , the Time clause is n’t the first time Trump has express his love of TiVo . In April , aWashington Post profileon Trump ’s obsession with cable news pointed out this fun choice morsel :
But Trump — who has boasted to several advisers and friend about bear “ the world ’s best TiVo ” — continue most focussed on what he regard on his flat screen , going so far as to compliment mark reporters on their television appearances .
I have no idea what what “ the world ’s best TiVo ” is concern to . Could it be theTiVo Bolt+ , eject last twilight , which can show up to six shows at once and store up to 450 hours of bloviating cable news blab out heads ? possibly . Or maybe he ’s got something limited just for him in the White House .
Yet another profile on Trump ’s TV habits , published in January byAxios , also name - check into TiVo . It ’s not open if the authors , Mike Allen and Jim VandeHei , were using TiVo as a stand - in for DVR , or if it was specifically referring to the TiVo make , but available evidence suggests it could be the former . Back in August 2015 , Trumpname - checked TiVoin a safari actor’s line in Michigan . TiVo itself was so excited , it posted a clip to its prescribed YouTube channel :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjPLq67zfY8
cornet was explain to a gang how with child TiVo is , in a longwinded path to excuse how the press was dishonest . OK .
And it ’s not just The Donald that loves TiVo . In an interview with People back in October 2015 , Melania Trumpcited TiVoin a segment about how her TV sense of taste differ from her more orange married man .
She and Trump portion a dearest ofElton Johnand Pavarotti , but when it comes to TV , “ I say , you watch your own stuff and I watch mine , ” she says . “ We have Tivo ! It ’s a majuscule human relationship . ”
It ’s unreadable whether Barron Trump — describedby his don as “ so good with these computers”—also bows down at the alter of TiVo .
by the way , TiVo the troupe , does n’t always seem to bang Donald Trump . The official Twitter account for the company post a # DumpTrump tweet back in July 2015 , early in Trump ’s campaign .
https://twitter.com/embed/status/616571547877117952
However , this tweet was send before the aforementioned clip was posted to YouTube , so either TiVo is bullshitting us or its communications teams are n’t entirely in sync . ( We ’ve make out to the company for comment on its number one fan , and we ’ll update if we see back . )
One final burn interrogation : Does the Trump ’s TiVo have the sound enabled ( you know , that great “ boop , boop ” noise ) , or did he turn that shit off to save everyone else ’s saneness ?
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