Its a news site but the only place you can find the date of the article is in the URL. Sometimes I am baffled by the weird design decisions people are making.
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Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Newly re-elected New Zealand Prime Minister John Key was talking to a supporter on his mobile phone when another call came in.
“I didn’t recognize the number, so I didn’t take it,” Key told a New Zealand television station.
Only later did aides tell Key who was trying to reach him: President Obama.
RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 6 months ago
It’s called USA Today. That means you’re only supposed to read the news that came out today.
Klear@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Oh, so it happened today. Makes it a lot less interesting now that Obama is not a president and hasn’t been in years.
Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
It says it right under the headline, no? Or maybe that’s only on the mobile layout or something.
arvere@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I guess I should start answering… what if it’s Obama?
the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Definitely don’t ghost Obama. He’ll drone strike your house.
CptEnder@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Lmao can you imagine President Obama having a call go to voicemail?
WillySpreadum@lemmy.world 6 months ago
just thinking logistically, I imagine that happened a lot. Anyway I expect a decent number of his calls were made by aides and he just took the phone after they got through to the right person.
GladiusB@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Even if it said “President Obama” many people would think it’s a prank.
Guntrigger@feddit.ch 6 months ago
True, but if you just got elected as the head of a US friendly nation, it probably wouldn’t be quite so unbelievable.
r00ty@kbin.life 6 months ago
Well to be fair I'd answer just to say "no you're not!"
StaticFalconar@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Im surprised the aides from each side didnt do all the logistics of connecting with one another and the president wasnt just handed a phone with the call already connected through.
makyo@lemmy.world 6 months ago
That’s what I was thinking, surely it was an aide who was dialing who’d only hand the phone to Obama when it actually connected to Key
Klear@lemmy.world 6 months ago
That was the aides from Obama’s side calling 100%. The minister was newly elected, maybe fairly new to politics as a whole? Maybe he just doesn’t like middlemen.