Former US National Security Adviser John Bolton to Copenhagen Democracy Summit: “Trump sees international relations as embodied in the relations of heads of state.
“So if he's friends with Xi Jinping, he thinks the US-China state-to-state relations are in great shape. He calls Xi 'King.'
“He thinks he's friends with Xi Jinping and with Vladimir Putin.
“And I will guarantee you that's not how they see Trump. I think they both see him as an easy mark.”
Bolton: “Decision-making now consists of Trump sitting behind his Resolute Desk in the Oval Office, five or six people in a semicircle in front of him, and he says, 'I think we'd like to do X.'
“That's when Pete Hegseth says, 'Yes, sir, we'll do that.'
“That's decision-making.”
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