Trying to avert another chaotic food fight, Trump endorsed Mike Johnson in his bid to be House Speaker again. Elon Musk also endorsed Johnson shortly after Trump’s statement, but then muddied the waters by amplifying a tweet casting doubt on Johnson’s chances by a Johnson opponent.

In an effort to regain control of the narrative and end the public infighting, Trump’s incoming Chief of Staff sent a memo to Cabinet and administration nominees that they should refrain from social media posts without prior approval from Trump’s future White House counsel. Apparently this order had been made previously and violated.

This order presumably does not apply to either Elon Musk or Vivek Ramaswamy, whose “nominations” to run the bizarre and undefined “DOGE” do not require Congressional approval. But of course, it’s their tweets that set off the MAGA civil war in the first place.