Tuesday began like any other day for the millions of people following President Donald Trump on Twitter: with a series of disjointed tweets inspired by whatever Trump happened to be thinking about, or whatever he’d just seen while watching the morning news. “The FAKE MSM is working so hard trying to get me not to use Social Media,” he said in one tweet. “They hate that I can get the honest and unfiltered message out.” He followed it up a few minutes later with another unfiltered thought: “Sorry folks, but if I would have relied on the Fake News of CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS, washpost or nytimes, I would have had ZERO chance winning WH.”

Trump’s social-media habit has been a constant source of consternation among wary White House staffers, frustrated Republican lawmakers, and world leaders who have struggled to ascertain the president’s ever-changing positions on domestic and foreign policy. “Don’t worry, I’ll give it up after I’m president,” Trump said last spring on the campaign trail. “We won’t tweet anymore. I don’t know. Not presidential.”

Of course, that hasn’t happened. Instead, his own lawyers and aides have begged the president to stop tweeting, if for no other reason than the fact that his 140 character missives could have significant legal ramifications, particularly as a number of his past and present associates are under investigation for possible collusion with Russia during the 2016 election. In recent days, Trump has used his Twitter account against the better judgment of those around him to needlessly attack London mayor Sadiq Khan after the terror attack that left seven dead, inciting yet another unnecessary transatlantic row, and to tweet about his immigration executive order, which he called a ban, effectively undermining his own legal team’s efforts to defend his order before the Supreme Court.

While the president has been urging world leaders to call him on his cell phone, those around him are trying to keep him away from it, limiting his screen time and keeping him occupied so that he won’t go off-script. But aides have struggled to supervise the president when he retreats to his residence at night, or when he’s watching television in the morning, which is when he is most likely to go rogue on Twitter, flying off the handle without supervision from lawyers. He also doesn’t plan to stop tweeting on Thursday during former F.B.I. director James Comey’s testimony, according to the Washington Post's Robert Costa, and may live-tweet his thoughts throughout. Trump’s lawyer, Marc Kasowitz, must be pulling out his hair.