PHOTO: CBS Sunday Morning

Once upon a time, namely from 2008-2016, there was a president who tweeted presidentially. His name was Barack Obama, and while we will not get swept into any sort of comparative nostalgia here, his sanity (or that of his aides) using the social media platform kind of formed a baseline for Presidential Tweeting 101. Until January 20, 2017, when Donald Trump took office and threw the textbook out the window. The stories of his tweet debacles are honestly too numerous to go into here, though recent egregious sh-tstorms of late have involved terrifying provocations aimed at North Korea and hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico. There’s been repeated attempts by his team to stage Twitter interventions.

So why does he tweet the way he does? We might never know exactly why, but an enabler has revealed herself, and it’s none other than Ivana Trump, his ex-wife and mother to Donald Jr., Eric, and Ivanka Trump. In an interview with CBS on Sunday morning, she said that she still speaks regularly with Donald—about once a week, in fact. According to the transcript CBS Sunday Morning provided, he also asks her for advice, particularly when it comes to tweeting.

Ivana says Donald repeatedly asks her, “Should I tweet? Should I not tweet?”

She continues: “I said, ‘I think you should tweet. It’s a new way, a new technology. And if you want to get your words across rightly, without telling the New York Times, which is going to twist every single word of yours, this is how you get your message out.”

The interviewer, Jim Axelrod, gently chimes in to mention that “so many people…have said, ‘Mr. President, stop tweeting.'”

“Well, it’s a tweeting president,” Ivana responded. “This is his new way, how to put the message across. And he’s right.”

“And you love it,” said Axelrod.

“Yeah,” responded Ivana.

And there you have it, folks. Watch the interview below:

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