The White House on Thursday said President Trump Donald John TrumpUS reimposes UN sanctions on Iran amid increasing tensions Jeff Flake: Republicans 'should hold the same position' on SCOTUS vacancy as 2016 Trump supporters chant 'Fill that seat' at North Carolina rally MORE is not upset with chief of staff John Kelly John Francis KellyMORE for telling lawmakers his campaign promises on immigration were “uninformed.”

White House spokesman Raj Shah insisted the president is frustrated with the news media’s coverage of Kelly’s remarks, not with the top aide himself.

“The president is upset with the media coverage about the interview and taking the chief’s comments out of context,” Shah told reporters aboard Air Force One.

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Trump and Kelly “have a great relationship and that continues,” Shah added.

The White House is disputing reports that the president was infuriated by Kelly’s comments, made to lawmakers on Capitol Hill and during a subsequent interview on Fox News.

“He's very definitely changed his attitudes toward the [Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals] issue and even the wall once we briefed him,” Kelly said, referring to Trump.

Kelly said Trump has “evolved in the way he's looked at things” and that all politicians “say things during the course of campaigns that may or may not be fully informed.”

Trump himself pushed back on Kelly’s remarks in a series of Thursday morning tweets, writing that his vision of a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border has not changed.

“The Wall is the Wall, it has never changed or evolved from the first day I conceived of it,” Trump tweeted.

Confidants of the president told news outlets that Trump was infuriated by the remarks, but said that Kelly is not in danger of losing his job.

The episode represented a rare public rift between the president and his chief of staff, who was hired last year to impose order on a chaotic White House.