“Yeah, I’ve spoken to him on the phone and had texts from Obama, of course,” he said on a radio show in 2013. Jay Z also rapped in 2009 that he has Obama “on the text.”
But Obama undercut Jay Z’s brag during his appearance on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” Thursday night, when he told the host he doesn’t text or use a smartphone.
“I don’t text. I email. I still have a Blackberry,” he told Kimmel, while discussing his tech habits. Obama said that for security reasons, he can’t use a phone or any of “that new fangled stuff” that includes any sort of recording device. The conversation came in the wake of the controversy over Hillary Clinton’s private email account.
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