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,”
insulting the president’s intelligence and casting himself as the savior of the country.”
Both Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and former chief of staff Reince Priebus called Trump an “idiot,”
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,” according toVanity Fair. He also said that Trump had “lost his step.”
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,”BuzzFeed News reported. At the dinner, which was with Oracle CEO Safra Catz, McMaster also said Trump was a “dope” with the intelligence of a “kindergartner,”
