Kellyanne Conway's husband tweets for first time in two years to criticise Trump

Just hours earlier, the President had said the media was 'obsessed' with his tweets

Mr Conway had been in the running for a top government job (AP)

The husband of a senior aide to Donald Trump has criticised his wife's boss - making his remarks in his first tweet for almost two years.

George Conway, the husband of Kellyanne Conway, said Mr Trump’s tweets regarding his Muslim travel ban and the way a revised version was taken to the Supreme Court, may make some people feel better.

However, he said they would not help the Office of the Solicitor General get get five votes on the Supreme Court.

“These tweets may make some ppl feel better, but they certainly won’t help OSG get 5 votes in SCOTUS, which is what actually matters,” he said, before copying Mr Trump’s catchphrase. “Sad.”

Until last week, Mr Conway had been in contention to head to the Department of Justice’s civil division. He then announced he was placing himself out of the running.

“I have reluctantly concluded, however, that, for me and my family, this is not the right time for me to leave the private sector and take on a new role in the federal government,” he said in a statement.

“Kellyanne and I continue to support the President and his administration, and I look forward to doing so in whatever way I can from outside the government.”

Mr Conway is a partner at the law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. He was previously under consideration to serve as the Trump administration’s solicitor general, a role that went to Noel Francisco.

His comments came just hours after his wife attacked the media’s “obsession” with covering what Mr Trump said on Twitter.

As Mr Conway was speaking, Mr Trump has published a flurry of tweets, asserting that he did indeed consider his stalled executive order “a travel ban”, and criticising his own officials for trying to have revised version of the order approved by the Supreme Court.

“People, the lawyers and the courts can call it whatever they want, but I am calling it what we need and what it is, a TRAVEL BAN,” Mr Trump wrote in one of four tweets, which he started posting at 6am.

He added: “In any event we are EXTREME VETTING people coming into the US in order to help keep our country safe. The courts are slow and political!”