Samsung is the iPhoniest of the Androids, too, especially with regard to vendor lock in. The joy of Android is that it's a (philosophically) open OS, which Samsung does everything it can to make proprietary.

That said, if you're worried about Trump, associating with Google--who makes Android--is probably the very worst choice you could make. No doubt Google is a key part of the coming surveillance state in the future Fascists States of America.

I'm using graphene OS, a modded and secure version of android, only available on Google Pixels (ironically) (soon available on Motorola), but the way things are going, I think it's time to start figuring out Linux phones.