Reb Aharon's reaction to being invited to the White House was to tell his students in yeshiva "I don't care about the guy -- you shouldn't care about the guy. I wasn't gonna go -- it's almost Rosh HaShanah! there's so much prep to do! do we have time for this?
-- but then I thought, nu? maybe something good will come from this -- I'll try to tell Trump to tell Bibi not to conscript Chasidim in Israel."
(This isn't surprising -- insular Hassidic groups do a very coordinated, local-transctional form of politics. As opposed to, like, ideologically. They have strong ideological positions for themselves, and.. prolly for Jews in general? But for engagement with secular society-- transactional, not transformative. But it's VERY funny to hear out loud.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UjXlnOVdug