Kellyanne Conway caught in Donald Trump, husband feud

Finding herself stuck in a feud between her husband and Donald Trump, Kellyanne Conway has chosen whose side she’s on.

Kellyanne Conway and husband George with their four children. Picture: Twitter

It’s a spot you don’t want to be in — getting stuck in a spat between your spouse and your boss.

But that’s exactly the position in which Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway has found herself, with the notorious public fight between the president and George Conway ramping up on social media.

The result? She has come down firmly on one side; and it’s not her husband’s.

The mutual dislike between Donald Trump and lawyer George Conway, a former Trump supporter, was well known, but on Wednesday Mr Trump escalated the rhetoric, tweeting that “stone cold loser” Mr Conway was a ”husband from hell”.

He added later that Mr Conway, 55, was a “whack job.”

“George Conway … is VERY jealous of his wife’s success & angry that I, with her help, didn’t give him the job he so desperately wanted. I barely know him but just take a look, a stone cold LOSER & husband from hell!” he tweeted.

The President of the United States. https://t.co/ZSpb3UXVPC

— George Conway (@gtconway3d) March 20, 2019

Mr Conway, who previously turned down a job with the Trump administration, tweeted: “You. Are. Nuts.”

Mr Conway has questioned Mr Trump’s mental health before, citing sections of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders related to narcissistic personality disorder and tweeting that “Americans should be thinking seriously now about Trump’s mental condition and psychological state.”

After Mr Trump’s latest tweet, he posted a link to the diagnostic criteria for narcissistic personality order, adding: “You. Are. Nuts.”

He also congratulated Mr Trump for having “guaranteed that millions of more people are going to learn about narcissistic personality disorder and malignant narcissism!”

“Great job!” he wrote.

Congratulations! You just guaranteed that millions of more people are going to learn about narcissistic personality disorder and malignant narcissism! Great job! https://t.co/Dk9bI3sBs7

— George Conway (@gtconway3d) March 19, 2019

Stuck between the warring men Ms Conway went public to defend her boss. Ms Conway, campaign chief from July 2016 and now one of Mr Trump’s top advisers, told Politico that Mr Trump had avoided targeting her husband for months “out of respect for me”

But she added: “You think he shouldn’t respond when somebody, a non-medical professional, accuses him of having a mental disorder? You think he should just take that sitting down?”

She told Politico: “Don’t play psychiatrist any more than George should be,” before taking a dig at her husband’s incessant tweeting.

“Yesterday George spent the day tweeting about the president. I spent my day doing two one-hour briefings with press and intergovernmental affairs people, agency people from all across the country and then over an hour briefing that I led in the Oval Office with the president and first lady in the cabinet on opioids at one year, so this is what I do here. I think it probably looks differently if everybody is turning into ‘Gossip Girl.’”

Mr Trump later took his tweets offline but couldn’t resist another gibe at Mr Conway as he left the White House for a trip to Ohio, calling him a “whack job” and saying he’s doing a “tremendous disservice” to his wife and family.

Mr Conway has described Mr Trump’s presidency as “maddening to watch” and said he tweets so he doesn’t “end up screaming” at his wife about the president.

Washington author and hostess Sally Quinn said she chatted about the situation with Kellyanne Conway and several other writers at a recent party. “She kept saying she couldn’t understand why people wanted to talk about it,” Ms Quinn said. “I said it’s a good story.”

With AP