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Does Trump dictate his tweets?

From Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House, pg 205:

In his suite at the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas, surrounded by advisers, Trump interrupted a debate-prep session to focus on Harris’s speech and respond to her in real time on Truth Social. Natalie Harp, a gatekeeper and gofer in his traveling entourage, tapped out the messages he dictated on a laptop.

I assume he doesn’t dictate all of them, given the spelling mistakes which one imagines wouldn’t be tolerated from an aide, but I’m intrigued to discover he dictates at least some of them. It takes the orality of Twitter/X (and I guess Truth Social) in a uniquely literal way.

Given Trump’s professed skepticism about computers, it leaves me wondering if the smartphone was his first ongoing personal contact with a device. If so, how has that shaped his digital trajectory?

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