WASHINGTON Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Tuesday that hes happy with everything Donald Trump has done since becoming president except for one thing.

Was it his executive order banning refugees and immigrants from seven Muslim-majority countries, perhaps, which was so bungled that its tied up in court? Was it his praise for Vladimir Putin? His war on the free press? His efforts to undermine the judicial branch of government? Its none of those things. McConnell is annoyed by Trumps tweets.

Am I a fan of all the tweets? Use your imagination, he chuckled at an event with constituents in Lawrenceburg, Kentucky. But if you focus on what the president is trying to accomplish, and you believe America needed to go in a different direction, I think hes been doing all the right things.

Its the latest example of just how much GOP leaders are prepared to embrace or turn a blind eye to Trumps actions, no matter how erratic or potentially dangerous they are, in exchange for the president signing the kinds of laws theyve desperately wanted for years but couldnt get under a Democratic president.

Certainly, Trumps penchant for typo-ridden tirades on Twitter is bizarre and a distraction from the GOPs agenda. But contrast the outrageousness of his tweets with that of his immigration executive order, for example, which left tens of thousands of immigrants in legal limbo for days and sparked protests nationwide.

Trumps criticisms of the federal judges who ruled against him on that executive order sparked threats against those judges .

And the ban itself plays right into the hands of Islamic State terrorists , who thrive off the idea that the United States is at war with Islam.

McConnell didnt raise concerns about any of that with his constituents. He talked about all the things Republicans want to do now that they control Congress and the White House, like comprehensive tax reform, repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act, and confirming Trumps Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch.

Its the same approach House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) has been taking, too: Block out the ugly things that are actually happening (e.g. Did Trumps campaign coordinate with Russia during the election? Nothing to see here! ) in favor of focusing on what your party wants to get done (e.g. quickly lining up bills to roll back government regulations ).

That, for the moment, appears to be GOP leaders strategy for navigating the next four years under Trump.

These are all the same kind of things a President Rubio or a President Bush or a President Romney would have recommended, McConnell said of ACA repeal and tax reform at his constituent event. So, I think were doing the kind of things that most Republicans believe can make the country better.