A MAGA lawmaker gave President Donald Trump a surprising warning after the president asked him "how do you like my tweets?"
Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) told Trump he might want to relax on the social media posts and attacks on anyone who criticizes him or the Trump administration, The Daily Beast reports Wednesday.
“He asked me, ‘How do you like my tweets?’” Sen. Kennedy said on the Pod Force One podcast with New York Post columnist Miranda Devine Wednesday.
“I said, ‘Mr. President, don’t take this the wrong way, but tweeting a little less would not cause brain damage,'" Kennedy said.
Kennedy said that the American people would like it if he cooled down on the posts — and that it appears Trump seemed OK with the critique — but that it probably did not sway him to relax on the posts. It's unclear when the exchange happened.
“He looked at me, said, ‘You don’t like my tweets.’ I said, ‘No, I didn’t say that.’ I said, ‘I like steak, but I don’t like eight steaks at one time. And you can’t just say everything that comes into your head,” Kennedy said.
“He just says anything. He says everything,” Kennedy said.
Over the last few weeks Trump has shared a slew of posts on his Truth Social platform, including a racist AI video of House Democratic leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) in a sombrero and poncho, “King Trump” flying a jet in a crown and dumping what appears to be feces on purported "No Kings" protesters and artistic renditions of the “Arc de Trump,” similar to the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, that he hopes to build.
He has also posted about attacks on alleged drug boats from Venezuela and "his bizarre ambitions of a 21,993rd run for the presidency in the year 90,000," The Beast reports.
Kennedy notes that the American people are watching.
“The American people get it,” Kennedy said. “I’m not saying my party’s perfect, but I think this is the way most Americans look at it today.”
“People look at their choice, Democrat, Republican. They say, ‘Well, Republicans aren’t perfect, but the other side’s crazy,’” he explained. “And that’s why they elected President Trump. They know all about President Trump.”