Trump's chief of staff: 'I do not follow the tweets'

[DonViejo]

NOV. 11, 2017, 9:19 P.M.

HANOI, VIETNAM

Hours after President Trump provoked North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Twitter, suggesting he is "short and fat," the White House chief of staff said he tells aides not to react to Trump's comments on social media.

"Someone, I read the other day, said we all just react to the tweets," said Chief of Staff John F. Kelly, speaking with a group of reporters after a presidential news conference Sunday in Vietnam. "We don’t. I don’t. I don’t allow the staff to. We know what we’re doing.” Kelly said, "Believe it or not, I do not follow the tweets.”

“I find out about them," he continued. "But for our purposes, my purpose, is we make sure the president is briefed up on what he’s about to do."

Referring to Trump's tweets, Kelly said, "They are what they are." And, in response to a question about whether he needs to take them into account to develop policy, Kelly insisted he does not.

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[Me.]

1. And This Is How These Incompetents Are Running This Country

"They are what they are."

[Achilleaze]

2. Dereliction of duty

He has a responsibility to the citizens of the USA to make sure Comrade Casino, the unstable republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief, does not blow us all up.

[Madam45for2923]

3. Yep, it's like following Donald's farts!

[enough]

4. If he wasn't insane already, trying to pretend this is a functional White House is making Kelly

insane himself.