Senior adviser on Trump's diplomacy: 'I can't keep up with the tweets'

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian and agencies

Senior adviser on Trump's diplomacy: 'I can't keep up with the tweets'

Former CIA director responds after president-elect uses Twitter
to respond to China’s seizure of a US drone, as John McCain
condemns incident

Martin Pengelly and agencies
Sunday 18 December 2016 17.09 GMT

One of Donald Trump’s senior advisers on national security has admitted to being baffled by the president-elect’s attempts to conduct diplomacy via Twitter, saying: “I can’t keep up with the tweets.”

Former CIA director James Woolsey made the remark on Sunday morning, in an appearance on ABC’s This Week.

Early on Saturday, Trump tweeted a comment on the seizure this week by China of an unmanned US naval vessel in the South China Sea, an act which has contributed to rising tension between the US and China and which Senator John McCain told CNN’s State of the Union was a “gross violation of international law”.

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On ABC, Woolsey was asked about Trump’s tweets and one by his communications director Jason Miller, who wrote on Saturday: “Donald Trump gets it done. China says it will return US drone it seized.”

“I don’t know,” Woolsey said. “I can’t keep up with the tweets. I don’t do the social media myself, so who knows.”

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/dec/18/senior-adviser-on-trumps-diplomacy-i-cant-keep-up-with-the-tweets

[Warpy]

1. Somebody is going to have to block his access to Twitter

if the Republicans won't block his access to the presidency.