Former Speaker of the House and Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich isn’t doing much these days. That’s why he offered to test out the Apple Watch and review it for Mashable. But Gingrich is already finding it difficult to use the watch for one simple purpose: checking in at an airport.
In a video he posted on Twitter, Gingrich appeared to need several people to walk him through the process of swiping the watch at a TSA PreCheck counter. Then, he had to be told how to confirm his check-in on the watch itself.
Using #AppleWatch as my boarding pass today was fun but not sure about practicality in long run cc @mashable pic.twitter.com/ACAsK5LOMh
— Newt Gingrich (@newtgingrich) June 4, 2015
After experiencing this supposed convenience firsthand, official Mashable celebrity reviewer Newt Gingrich proclaimed that he was “not sure about [its] practicality in the long run.”
Gingrich’s followers, most of them fellow conservatives, responded with various kinds of political punditry…
@newtgingrich @mashable Speaks more to the incompetence of the TSA than , to be fair.
— TheColdFrog (@TheColdFrog) June 4, 2015
@newtgingrich @mashable I respect you, Newt, but you really need to go with Android.
— Rocket the Pony (@Blue_Pony) June 4, 2015
Here’s Newt modeling the Apple Watch for the first time in his debut as a Mashable contributor.
Here we go! Excited to be reviewing the #AppleWatch for @mashable. More to come in the next few wks. Get ready pic.twitter.com/lzqVH4QmBs
— Newt Gingrich (@newtgingrich) May 14, 2015
Photo via raneko/Flickr (CC BY 2.0)