--- title: President Trump Can't Stop Tweeting description: President Trump's tweets are undercutting the case for his "travel ban," and distracting from his legislative and foreign policy agenda. canonical: https://time.com/4807024/president-trump-cant-stop-tweeting/ author: Zeke Miller article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-06-06T16:36:14.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T05:16:58.343Z article:section: Politics og:title: President Trump Can't Stop Tweeting og:description: President Trump's tweets are undercutting the case for his "travel ban," and distracting from his legislative and foreign policy agenda. og:url: https://time.com/4807024/president-trump-cant-stop-tweeting/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb24c27fcf0ec0da8/6986837dcd6848a30809364f/morning-must-reads1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: Morning Must Reads og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: President Trump Can't Stop Tweeting twitter:description: President Trump's tweets are undercutting the case for his "travel ban," and distracting from his legislative and foreign policy agenda. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb24c27fcf0ec0da8/6986837dcd6848a30809364f/morning-must-reads1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # President Trump Can't Stop Tweeting > Sponsored content. 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President Trump’s late-night and early-morning missives are undercutting the legal case for his “travel ban,” distracting from his legislative agenda, and contradicting his staff’s efforts to conduct U.S. foreign policy. Trump’s insistence on calling the blocked proposal a “travel ban” as he pushes for a swift appeal at the Supreme Court was called “sad” by none other than George Conway, the husband of one of his top aides who was considered for key Justice Department posts. On Monday evening, White House Legislative Affairs Director Marc Short stated the obvious: that the Russia investigation and the tweets were taking the focus off his push for a health care bill and tax reform in Congress. And Trump’s Tuesday morning tweets taking credit for Arab states isolating Qatar, ostensibly because of that Gulf nation’s alleged financing of terror, broke with comments from his national security team who appealed for a united Gulf Cooperation Council in the fight against ISIS. 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He Should Appoint More](http://time.com/4805557/donald-trump-nominees-appointments-confirmations/) \[TIME\] [Cancel Donald Trump state visit, says Sadiq Khan, after London attack tweets](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/05/donald-trump-attack-courts-travel-ban-london) \[The Guardian\] [Contractor charged in NSA document leak case](https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/contractor-charged-in-nsa-document-leak-case/2017/06/05/41144b0e-4a37-11e7-a186-60c031eab644%5Fstory.html?hpid=hp%5Fhp-top-table-main%5Fleak-0646pm:homepage/story&utm%5Fterm=.3c65d96f97d6) \[Washington Post\] [Cities Are Pushing Back as President Trump Prepares to Cut Anti-Terrorism Funding](http://time.com/4806838/donald-trump-antiterror-cuts/) \[Associated Press\] [A New U.S. Environmental Alliance Is Trying to Take Trump’s Place on the World Stage](http://time.com/4806118/michael-bloomberg-states-climate-change/) \[TIME\] [Tillerson Says Trump Wants Him to Rebuild Relations with Moscow Despite the Russia Probe](http://time.com/4806809/rex-tillerson-donald-trump-russia/) \[Associated Press\] [‘Kill Them All.’ A Congressman Has Declared War on ‘Islamic Horror’](http://time.com/4805686/london-attack-clay-higgins/) \[TIME\] [Kellyanne Conway’s Husband Called President Trump’s Latest Tweets ‘Sad’](http://time.com/4805631/george-conway-trump-travel-ban-tweet/) \[TIME\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4807024/president-trump-cant-stop-tweeting/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4807024/president-trump-cant-stop-tweeting/"},"headline":"President Trump Can't Stop Tweeting","datePublished":"2017-06-06T16:36:14.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T05:16:58.343Z","description":"Morning Must Reads: June 6","url":"https://time.com/4807024/president-trump-cant-stop-tweeting/","keywords":["Morning Must Reads"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb24c27fcf0ec0da8/6986837dcd6848a30809364f/morning-must-reads1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Zeke Miller","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/zeke-j-miller/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb24c27fcf0ec0da8/6986837dcd6848a30809364f/morning-must-reads1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Morning Must Reads","caption":"Capitol","creditText":"Mark Wilson—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4807024/president-trump-cant-stop-tweeting/","name":"President Trump Can't Stop Tweeting"}}]}] ```