“Unfit for the Presidency”:
His Presidential Advisers, 2017-2021
“He will always put his own interests, and gratifying his own ego, ahead of everything else, including the country’s interest.”
— Bill Barr, Attorney General
“He puts himself before country. His actions are all about him and not about the country.”
— Mark Esper, Secretary of Defense
“The depth of his dishonesty is just astounding to me. . . . He is the most flawed person I have ever met in my life.”
— John Kelly, Secretary of Homeland Security and White House Chief of Staff
“His understanding of global events, his understanding of global history, his understanding of U.S. history was really limited.” “He’s a moron.” (Two of the four people who overheard the latter remark said the actual words were “He’s a fu--king moron.”)
— Rex Tillerson, Secretary of State
“Trump has this impression about foreign leaders, especially adversaries, hold him in high regard, that he’s got a good relationship with [China’s] Xi Jinping, [Russia’s Vladimir Putin, and [North Korea’s] Kim Jong Un. In fact, the exact opposite is true. I have been in these rooms with him when he met with those leaders. I believe they think he is a laughing fool.”
— John Bolton, White House National Security Adviser
“President Trump and other officials in his administration have repeatedly compromised our principles in pursuit of partisan advantage and personal gain.”
— H.R. McMaster, White House National Security Advisor
“Anyone who puts himself over the Constitution should never be president of the United States. . . . President Trump demanded that I choose between him and the Constitution. I chose the Constitution.”
— Mike Pence, Vice President
“We are unique among the world’s militaries. We don’t take an oath to a country. We don’t take an oath to a tribe. We don’t take an oath to a religion. We don’t take an oath to a king, or a queen, or to a tyrant or a dictator. And we don’t take an oath to a ‘wannabe’ dictator.”
— Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley (Ret)
“He [Donald Trump] is more dangerous than anyone can imagine.”
— James Mattis, Secretary of Defense
