The Atlantic’s Conor Friedersdorf published a story this morning suggesting that, for everyone’s peace of mind, Twitter should institute some kind of additional layer of security around Donald Trump’s Twitter feed.

There is an argument here which makes a certain amount of sense. Trump really has made his Twitter account a key aspect of both his public persona and his blunt take on policy issues. For instance, a few weeks ago Trump tweeted that Boeing was making too much money off the Air Force One program:

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/806134244384899072?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

After he tweeted that, he appeared to get results. The CEO of Boeing came to a meeting with Trump at his Florida resort and came out promising to bring the cost of the program down. The point here is that people already see Twitter as a place for Trump’s first reaction to breaking news and, more importantly, a place where he sometimes makes his own news.

So what happens, Friedersdorf asks, if Trump gets hacked? He invites us to imagine the reaction if, one day, the world sees this tweet go out from his account, “Putin you betrayed me, BIG MISTAKE, payback incoming!” A tweet like that, especially if it was a touch less bombastic, would have a zillion and one RTs before the White House could get word out that the account had been hacked.

Even worse, imagine if a hacker gained access to the account and started sending private messages to other foreign leaders announcing some policy change or pending attack. How long would it take the recipient and the White House to realize what had happened?

Friedersdorf outlines a specific way in which the threat of a Trump Twitter-jacking might be alleviated. Twitter could require every tweet from Trump be authenticated by the White House Chief of Staff before it appears. That wouldn’t necessarily prevent a hacker from gaining access to the account but it would prevent him from using it to do any harm, which is the real concern. “Going forward, the @POTUS account and any verified account belonging to the sitting president should lose the ability to post anything instantaneously to the Internet,” Friedersdorf writes.

The bottom line is this: If Trump is going to be the Tweeter-in-Chief, then we better make damn sure no one else can ever hijack his account.