Donald Trump is ‘a laughing fool’: John Bolton harshly criticizes former president
Donald Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton says world leaders see the Republican presidential front-runner as a ‘laughing fool’.
Donald Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton has unleashed harsh words against the leading GOP presidential candidate, saying that world leaders view him as a fool, thus making him an easy mark for them.
“Having been in the room with him, in meeting those people, having listened in on his phone conversations, I don’t think they are really friendly with Donald Trump,” Bolton said on CNN’s “The Source with Kaitlin Collins”.
“I think they think- Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong Un and others- they think he’s a laughing fool and they’re fully prepared to take advantage of him. Trump’s self-absorption makes it impossible for him to understand that,” he added, contradicting claims by the former president that he has strong relationships with these leaders.
READ ALSO: Trump throws tantrum after $83.3 million defamation verdict
Bolton: Trump has short attention span
Bolton also elaborated on why he thought Trump’s re-election would be detrimental to the United States.
“I don’t think Trump is capable of making the decisions grounded in national security. His attention span is short”, he explained to Collins.
“He doesn’t know much about world history or world affairs. He actually doesn’t think they matter very much. He thinks his personal relationships with foreign leaders, especially the authoritarian ones, are all that matter,” he elaborated further.
READ ALSO: Can Trump afford the $83.3 million damages?
Bolton’s history of bitter words against Trump
It’s not the first time that Bolton has lashed out against his former boss. He parted ways with the Trump government in 2019, and he has spoken poorly of the former president since that time.
Last year, he said that Trump was unfit to be president, and that his insistence that he could end the Russia-Ukraine war in a day by negotiating with Putin showed that “he’s utterly out of touch what the war is all about and what the implications of Russia’s aggression against Ukraine are all around the world,” according to Politico.
Bolton is currently promoting a new edition of his book, “The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir,” the release of which the Trump administration unsuccessfully tried to block in 2020.