When someone starts following you around on social media by friending the
people that you are already friends with whom don'
t know about the disagreement with you and the other person. A good example of this is in the case of Donald Trump TWEETING that
Barack Obama had 'wiretapped' him during the election.
By "wiretapping" - Trump was using an 'expression' that literally meant:
"he was into my business" or "he was reading my posts"
A good example would be if Trump were friends with Sheryl Crow on Facebook and then later Obama hits up Sheryl Crow with a friend request which she accepts and then Trump makes a comment on Sheryl'
s feed like,
"
Hey, I heard that Lance lost his testicle. I'm
sorry to hear that. I guess that he wasn'
t covered under Obamacare..."
Which Trump thinks is 'somewhat' of a 'private conversation' because Sheryl Crow's posts aren'
t usually public, but what he doesn'
t know is that Obama friended her once he found out that Trump and Crow had been 'sharing statuses' and so Obama is categorically "wiretapping".
That's a '
basic' explanation of what Trump meant when he said, "I just found out Obama was wiretapping me."