Ex-Trump Insider Ridicules Idea Trump Will Be ‘Normal President’ In CNN Hit
Former Trump cabinet member John Bolton ridiculed the notion that President-elect Donald Trump will be a “normal president” in an interview with CNN anchor Kasie Hunt.
Bolton — who served as Trump’s national security adviser and as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations during Trump’s first term — has became a strident critic of Trump since his tenure.
On Thursday’s edition of CNN This Morning, Bolton cited Trump’s bonkers press conference and an overnight Truth Social post to refute the idea that he has “changed”:
HUNT: All right, sir, I want to ask you about something that we’re seeing here at home with the former president, who invoked your name. The former president, president-elect, invoked your name in a post on his Truth Social platform overnight. And it seems to be something of a blacklist for people who worked for or were supported by a number of figures in the Republican Party, including you.
Trump wrote this, quote, “in order to save time, money, and effort, it would be helpful if you would not send or recommend to us people who worked with or are endorsed by,” and he calls you “dumb as a rock, John Bolton.” This is a picture slate of all of the others who are also included there.
What is your response to this?
BOLTON: Well, you know, it’s very typical of Trump to open his mouth without knowing what he’s talking about. And I bear no ill will to the people who once worked for me, who have already been announced for jobs in – in the Trump administration. I’m going to – I’m not going to name them and get them into trouble, or the many others that I’m aware of are still trying to get jobs in the Trump administration. So, I think that list he’s put out there is a pretty good company to be in, and I can’t wait for the intrepid journalists at CNN and elsewhere to reveal all the names of these people who have worked for people on the blacklist.
HUNT: What does it say to you that this is how Donald Trump is approaching – approaching this as he is set to take office in just a handful of days?
BOLTON: Sure. Look, there – there are a lot of people – and – and it’s normal in a transition. The incoming president’s team and their supporters are just in the rapture. Everything’s fine. Everything’s going to be OK. All things will happen. Everything will be a victory. And for those who say that Trump is reformed, that he’s grown, that he’s going to be a normal president, this is the kind of thing, like the Mar-a-Lago press conference last week, that demonstrates he hasn’t changed at all. It’s going to be four years, just like the last four years.
Watch above via CNN This Morning.
