--- title: George Conway: Kellyanne's Husband Calls Out Donald Trump description: Kellyanne Conway's husband criticized President Trump's latest tweetstorm Friday morning. canonical: https://time.com/4805631/george-conway-trump-travel-ban-tweet/ author: Tessa Berenson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-06-05T16:42:42.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-13T07:17:39.000Z article:section: Politics og:title: Kellyanne Conway's Husband Called President Trump's Latest Tweets 'Sad' og:description: He said they would hurt his case before the Supreme Court. og:url: https://time.com/4805631/george-conway-trump-travel-ban-tweet/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt86890e34a677fdec/6988d026fb4eac09e1892485/donald-trump-infrastructure-plan.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4000 og:image:height: 2250 og:image:alt: President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump attend a reception at the Ford's Theatre og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Kellyanne Conway's Husband Called President Trump's Latest Tweets 'Sad' twitter:description: He said they would hurt his case before the Supreme Court. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt86890e34a677fdec/6988d026fb4eac09e1892485/donald-trump-infrastructure-plan.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Kellyanne Conway's Husband Called President Trump's Latest Tweets 'Sad' > Sponsored content. 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From new hires to policy announcements, President Trump enjoys keeping people guessing as to what he'll do next._  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Updated: Dec 13, 2023 7:17 AM UTCPublished: Jun 5, 2017 4:42 PM UTC  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Updated: Dec 13, 2023 7:17 AM UTCPublished: Jun 5, 2017 4:42 PM UTC Kellyanne Conway’s husband criticized President Trump’s [latest tweetstorm](http://time.com/4805091/donald-trump-travel-ban-justice-department/) Friday morning, using one of the president’s favorite insults against him: “Sad.” “These tweets may make some ppl feel better, but they certainly won’t help \[the solicitor general\] get 5 votes in \[the Supreme Court\], which is what actually matters. Sad.” tweeted George Conway, a partner at law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. > [](https://twitter.com/gtconway3d/status/871746245630590980) Conway later elaborated, clarifying that he “very very strongly” supports Trump, the executive order and his “wonderful wife.” > [](https://twitter.com/gtconway3d/status/871779652880216064) > [](https://twitter.com/gtconway3d/status/871779692063453184) > [](https://twitter.com/gtconway3d/status/871779737022201856) > [](https://twitter.com/gtconway3d/status/871779768697585664) TIME confirmed that this is Conway’s Twitter account. Conway was referring to the president’s early morning tirade on Monday about his immigration executive order, in which he repeatedly emphasized that the order is, in fact, a “travel ban” and said that the revised order is merely a “watered down, politically correct version” of the first. In lower court rulings halting the order, judges have cited Trump’s statements outside the text of the order as evidence that it unconstitutionally targets Muslims. Trump has asked to send the case to the Supreme Court. Conway’s wife, Kellyanne, a counselor to the president and frequent media surrogate for the administration, recently [bashed the media](http://www.politico.com/story/2017/06/05/trump-london-attack-kellyanne-conway-239132) for “this obsession with covering everything he says on Twitter and very little of what he does as president.” George Conway had reportedly been in consideration for a top Justice Department post in the Trump Administration, but he [bowed out](http://time.com/4804691/kellyanne-conway-husband-justice-department-job/) this week, saying it wasn’t the right time for him to leave the private sector. (He was never formally nominated for the Justice Department post.) ## Transcript [ MUSIC ] Donald Trump wants to keep you in suspense. The President loves to draw attention to his policy decisions by teasing them ahead of time. You're gonna find out very soon. Thank you all very much. Often, stressing how he's not made up his mind yet. You probably haven't made the decision yourself. You're gonna- I actually haven't. It starts tweet. Trump will say he's made a decision and will make an announcement soon. Stay tuned, he often says. He means that literally. Trump's tweets spur cable TV into action. Pundits make predictions. White House staffers give hints on which way he might go. Ultimately he wants a fair deal for the American people and he will have an announcement coming on that shortly. In many cases, the suspense is real. Trump often gets conflicting advice from his advisors and he really could go in different directions. But the technique is most successful when Trump is hiring someone, such as when he picked his running mate, Mike Pence, his secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, or his nominee for the Supreme Court, Neil Gorsuch. [ APPLAUSE ] So was that a surprise? Was it? But he's even used it to score airtime to reverse himself on whether President Obama was born in the United States. President Barack Obama was born in the United States period. Or how he'd respond if he lost the election. Now to [ INAUDIBLE ] to that principle. What I'm saying is that I'll tell you at the time. I'll keep you in suspense. 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