Two of President Donald Trump’s advisers are on a mission to downplay the significance of his most recent Twitter rant, claiming media outlets take the president’s social media posts too seriously. Sebastian Gorka, Trump’s deputy assistant, engaged in a heated exchange with CNN’s Chris Cuomo on Monday, denying that the president’s tweets about the London Bridge terror attack and his executive order on immigration amount to policy. ... It’s his words, his thoughts.”“It’s not policy,” Gorka said. “It’s not an executive order. It’s social media.”White House counselor Kellyanne Conway also attempted to devalue Trump’s tweets on Monday by claiming the media has “an obsession” with covering his posts.

Source: Huffington Post June 05, 2017 13:55 UTC