Secret service may tell Donald Trump to stop tweeting, top aide suggests

Senior aide Kellyanne Conway raises eyebrows by calling billionaire businessman's tweets 'presidential'

The US secret service may advise Donald Trump to give up his personal Twitter account when he takes office, according to one of his senior aides.

Kellyanne Conway, who described Mr Trump’s controversial tweets as “presidential behaviour” on Sunday, told an audience at CNN’s “State of the Union” debate that the future of the President-elect account would be considered.

When asked whether Mr Trump will relinquish control of his Twitter page after he is sworn in, Ms Conway said: “That’s going to be up to him, the secret service and others who have to help decide those issues.

“I will tell you that the President-elect looks at his social media accounts, a combined 25 million users, or probably more at this point, on Twitter on Facebook as a very good platform from which to convey his messages.

“He's a unique person, who's been following his instincts and his judgement from the beginning."

Ms Conway was asked whether she thought it was appropriate behaviour for Mr Trump to tweet about there being “millions of fraudulent votes” in the recent election despite lack of evidence.

She responded: “Well, he’s the President-elect, so that’s presidential behavior, yes.”

Ms Conway called on the American people to “move on” from the election result and “support the president on the issues he’s going to tackle”.

Mr Trump’s Twitter account has been the subject of scrutiny and criticism throughout the presidential election and beyond, as his late night tweets in particular have tackled sensitive issues in a characteristically blunt manner.

On September 30 at 3am, Mr Trump went on a Twitter rant against presidential rival Hillary Clinton for her support of former Miss Universe Alicia Machado, raising eyebrows in the political community.

At the start of December, Twitter suggested it would consider banning Mr Trump from its site if he violated the company’s terms of use.

The following week, Mr Trump took to the social network again to complain about Chinese military and economic policies in a series of tweets to his 16.7 million followers