"I like him...I don't know"
He sure as shit isn't about to piss off the insane guy that could throw him out tomorrow.
The ever more fucked up part of all this is that while it was happening trump put Steve Bannon, white nationalist extraordinaire, on the National Security Council. At the same time he removed the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs - the highest ranking member of the military - and that Director of National Intelligence to whom all 17 intelligence agencies report to.
The head of the military and that head of the country's spy network now have less input on national security than that guy who used to run a conspiracy theorist blog.