The “harm” caused by President Donald Trump’s first four years in office could be “even more profound” if he wins a second term, according to the president’s former national security advisor John Bolton.

Bolton served in the Trump White House for 17 months between 2018 and 2019.

“He is not a conservative, he is not a liberal either in American terms, he is Donald Trump and his focus are Donald Trump and Donald Trump’s re-election,” Bolton said.

I have been across the table from Kim Jong Un a number of times now, and I don’t know how he managed those tears — maybe he had the onions hidden in his pocket somewhere,” Bolton said, adding that the U.S. had “wasted a lot of time with Trump’s failed diplomacy” in North Korea.

Trump famously said he and Kim “fell in love” at a landmark summit in Singapore in 2018, but despite attempts to flatter Kim away from his nuclear ambitions, North Korea unveiled a massive long-range missile at a weekend parade to mark the 75th anniversary of its ruling Workers Party.

“I just don’t think that he ever fully understood the gravity of his responsibility as president, the weight of the decisions he had, and it is why I worry about the harm that he did to the U.S. in his first term and why that harm could be even more profound in a second term.”
– John Bolton, Donald Trump’s former national security advisor.