Palmeri: Team Trump Keeping His Twitter Habit Under Control by Ensuring He Reads Constant Praise

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PALMERI: "Well they said they cracked the code. Let's be clear about that. Because he did fire of a lot of inflammatory tweets when he was on the campaign as well. But they were able to get their boss to runa bit cooler than he's been in the past few weeks. We've really seen the volume high on his tweets lashing out at the press. And a lot of that has to do about controlling his media diet and making sure that you’re not just playing with the mainstream press, but also engaging with, you know, more conservative outlets like 'Breitbart', 'Daily Caller', 'Washington Examiner' and making sure that more praise worthy stories are also in his media diet and not just 'The new York Times' and the 'The wall Street journal'. But the thing with Trump is that he only reads what's on his desk. He is not someone who is like scouring through the blogs. He reads 'The New York Times', 'The Washington Post', 'The Wall Street Journal' but he is not always aware of some of the more favorable press that he is getting and his campaign team was able to cool him down a bit by showing him what else was out there. The interesting thing is that one of my sources actually said to me he was very hesitant about telling me this formula because he knew it would make Spicer’s job easier and that he would be able to control the message more easily if the president wasn’t tweeting out his own rogue messages that were strain the actual, you know, story of the day that they were trying to get out."