
“I would have taken that resignation letter and shoved it up his ass six different times,” Kelly told Cohn. Cohn met with Trump to give him his resignation letter, but Trump persuaded him to stay. We’re going to be much more measured.”įormer economic adviser Gary Cohn came to view Trump as a “professional liar” and threatened to quit over how Trump handled a deadly white supremacist rally in Charlottesville. Mattis hung up and told a senior aide, “We’re not going to do any of that.

“Let’s kill the lot of them,” Trump said. Trump called Mattis, saying he wanted to assassinate the Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad, after Assad launched a chemical attack on civilians in April 2017. He couldn’t even be a one-person country lawyer down in Alabama.” Trump was vicious in his remarks about Attorney General Jeff Sessions, saying at one point to an aide, “This guy is mentally retarded. He also said McMaster dressed in cheap suits “like a beer salesman.” McMaster, puffing up his chest and exaggerating his breathing.

Trump often mocked his former national security adviser, retired Army general H.R.
