President Obama told ABC late night host Jimmy Kimmel on Monday that he is extra careful about the people he corresponds with and words he writes when sending emails.
“But my rule has been throughout my presidency, is that I assume someday, sometime, somebody will read this e-mail, so I don’t send any e-mail … that at some point won’t be on the front page of the newspapers,” Obama said.
The Democratic president did not comment on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s improper use of a government-issued email address, including the contents of messages, many of which have been made public due to WikiLeaks. Obama did not state whether his standard was a personal one or one he imposed on his Cabinet members following Clinton’s scandal.
Obama added that his phone is the bare minimum in terms of upgrades.
“I now have an iPhone, but it is, you know, like, the phone you give your 2-year-old — where they can pretend to press things, but nothing actually happens. So my phone has no phone, no camera, no music — all it has is the Internet, and I can send emails,” Obama said.
The interview was the president’s second-ever on Kimmel’s show.
