Trump hasn't spoken to his national security adviser for some time!

It sounds like Donald Trump didn't know his national security adviser Robert O'Brien had tested positive for Covid-19 because he casually admitted he hadn't spoken to him for a few days. Now I'm sure it's possible for a president to live in the White House without spending every minute of the day in the company of his national security adviser. But it struck me as quite comical for Trump to say what he said. No one-to-one chat, no phone chat, no exchange of texts on such subjects as China China China, or Putin getting ready to put hypersonic missiles on board Russian warships, or Iran playing with its cardboard cut-out Nimitz-like aircraft carrier in the Gulf or Israel slamming munitions into Lebanon etc etc. No not a word. Many officials in the White House didn't know about O'Brien's Covid-19 positive test either until it was formally announced. Of course the only people who do spend ALL their time with the president are his Secret Service detail and the man with the nuclear "football" who carries in his briefcase the secret codes for the president to use if he wished to go to nuclear war. But you would have thought that O'Brien would be in touch with the president pretty much every day. Some reports suggested he was having a family occasion and had been off for a few days. But surely wherever the national security adviser is, at home or in the office, he is available 24 hours of the day for the president to ring to get advice. But on this occasion Trump must have found he could do without O'Brien's advice. I could understand it when walrus-moustache John Bolton was national security adviser because there must have been occasions when the president felt the last person he wanted to talk to was that man with the stupid moustache who always thought he knew better. Better than the president, that is. But O'Brien is a lawyer by profession and he has been pretty quiet since he took over from Bolton. Anyway, O'Brien is now self-isolating and unable to chair, unless by Zoom, the National Security Council. It doesn't look as if Trump will worry too much. I loved the way he said he must get round to ringing O'Brien to find out how he is.