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Political Cornflakes: How do White House aides deal with Trump’s tweets? They ignore them

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Happy Friday. White House officials are learning the best way to deal with President Donald Trump’s barrage of tweets that are sometimes at best misleading and sometimes outright false. How do they cope? They ignore them. After 20 months of failed efforts to corral the president, aides figure it’s best to let the president – who has long viewed himself as his best spokesman, strategist and negotiator – say what he wants to say and move on.