Ben Carson, a Donald Trump surrogate, warns the presumptive nominee to be careful with tweeting. | Getty Carson warns Trump on tweets

Ben Carson has a message for Donald Trump: Be careful with your tweets.

"Social media provides a great platform for discourse, but we must be careful with the messages we send out," Carson, who has emerged as one of the Manhattan businessman's surrogates after a contentious primary, tweeted Tuesday morning.


The warning came days after the presumptive Republican nominee tweeted an image attacking Hillary Clinton as "corrupt" with a six-pointed star that drew widespread backlash for its similarity to the Jewish Star of David.

"Team Trump has to be careful about [retweeting] any and everything," Carson's longtime adviser Armstrong Williams said in an email to POLITICO after Carson's tweet on Tuesday. "We would never do that from DBC's account because we know that he has a platform and we must take care of that platform and be wise with the messages he disseminates."

Williams also rejected the notion that Carson was going after Trump.

"It's never an intentional attack on Mr. Trump, but a reminder of the importance that we use our platforms wisely," he said.