Story highlights Spicer made the comments Monday

He was asked how Trump's tweets should be taken

Washington (CNN) White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Tuesday President Donald Trump's tweets are indeed official statements.

"The President is the President of the United States, so they're considered official statements by the President of the United States," Spicer said, when asked during his daily briefing how they should be characterized. Spicer did not indicate whether that included both of the President's Twitter handles: @realDonaldTrump and @POTUS.

Spicer, who fields a lot of questions about the meaning of the President's tweets, was asked if Trump undermines his own agenda-setting when he tweets. On Monday, for example, rather than focusing on his administration's planned roll out of a week focused on infrastructure, Trump knocked his Justice Department's handing of his travel ban in the wake of a terrorist attack in London.

"The President is the most effective messenger on his agenda," Spicer said. He then touted Trump's 110 million followers across social media platforms.

"And the same people critiquing his use of it now critiqued it during the election and it turned out pretty well for him," Spicer said.

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