Sen. John Kennedy talks Trump’s social media habits with ‘Pod Force One’: ‘Bit less would not cause brain damage’
“Pod Force One,” revealing that he believes the 45th and 47th president would benefit from reigning in his relentless posting pace.
“He’s unruly,” Kennedy told The Post’s Miranda Devine on the new podcast, out Wednesday. “I told him one time, I said, ‘Mr. President, your problem is you grow anxious when you have an unexpressed thought.’ He just says anything. He says everything.'”
Asked whether the Poster-in-Chief was rankled by the suggestion, the Louisiana Republican replied, “He was cool about it.”
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“He asked me, ‘How do you like my tweets?'” Kennedy recounted. “I said, ‘Mr. President, don’t take this the wrong way. But tweeting a little bit less would not cause brain damage.’ And 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 in your head.'”