'Anyone can get him on the phone': Expert reveals 'danger' of Trump answering random calls

President Donald Trump has become more recently known for answering unscreened phone calls — even when unknown numbers show up on his caller ID. Now, one former member of Congress is now elaborating on the inherent risk of Trump's propensity to talk to anyone.

In a Tuesday interview with MSNBC host Katy Tur, former Rep. Max Rose (D-N.Y.) expressed alarm at a recent report in the Atlantic on Trump's frequent use of his private cellphone even after being sworn in as the 47th president of the United States. According to the Atlantic's Ashley Parker and Michael Scherer, Trump sees his private phone as an "enhancement" to his office, rather than as a hindrance.

“I’ve been on the phone with him before, and he’s just said, ‘I’ve got to go. I have someone from another country calling,’” one unnamed adviser told the Atlantic. “He doesn’t even know which country. He just sees the number and thinks, This might be a foreign leader I want to talk to.”

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Rose contrasted Trump's freewheeling phone use with the insular nature of former President Joe Biden's administration, saying anyone hoping to speak directly with Biden had to "go through probably four or five advisors." He noted that while that was "probably not something good," Trump's advisors have no real way to put a layer of protection between Trump and anyone who has his phone number.

"The danger with Donald Trump is not just that anyone can get him on the phone, and rather easily ... But there's also the fact that he actually has no core beliefs," Rose said. "So often the policy that he puts out, or the thoughts that he puts out, or the tweet that he puts out, is dependent on the last person that he spoke to."

Tur scoffed at Rose's assertion, saying that while that may have been true in 2016, Trump now has a "coterie around him that is much more aligned with him." But Rose doubled down, saying Trump's mercurial nature has only intensified over the past eight years.

"I would actually argue this is the one thing where it's he's more susceptible to this type of erratic change, because in the last administration, you had a whole series of officials that would stop the changes, stop the flip-flop, stop all the erratic behavior. Now, we all know that this is just a group of sycophants that are looking to go along to get along," he said. "So it'll be Trump tariffs at one rate this this week, another rate the next week. If we don't think that those are connected to phone calls and text messages that he is getting from random people at 3 AM, we are all collectively out of our mind.

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