‘Idiot,’ ‘Dope,’ ‘Moron’: How Trump’s own staff and cabinet members have insulted the boss
• Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Trump had the
understanding of “a fifth- or sixth-grader,”
• White House chief of staff John Kelly called Trump “an idiot” and said he thought the president was “
unhinged,”
• Omarosa Manigault Newman, who was the highest-ranking African-American staffer in the West Wing, claimed that Trump is a “
racist, misogynist and bigot.”
• Both Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and former chief of staff Reince Priebus called Trump an “
idiot,”
• Former economic adviser Gary Cohn said Trump was “
dumb as shit,”
• Former national security adviser H.R. McMaster said the president was a “
dope,”
• Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon said in November 2017 that Trump was “
like an 11-year-old child,”
• Former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in July 2017 called Trump a “
moron,”
• At a dinner in July 2017, McMaster mocked Trump, also calling him an “
idiot,”
• At the dinner, which was with Oracle CEO Safra Catz, McMaster also said Trump was a “
dope” with the
intelligence of a “kindergartner,”
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/09/04/trumps-insults-idiot-woodward-806455