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Sexist Trump can't handle Angela Merkel and Theresa May, says John Bolton: 'He has troubles with women leaders'

According to Bolton, the POTUS is a 'talker' who 'likes to talk' and May 'says what she has to say'
UPDATED JUN 26, 2020
(Getty Images)
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Former national security adviser John Bolton, who was fired by President Donald Trump last year, has claimed his former boss "has trouble with women leaders". Speaking to Sky News, Bolton said Trump and former British prime minister Theresa May "have very different approaches to politics." According to him, the POTUS is a "talker" who "likes to talk." Meanwhile, he describes May as a "kind of politician who says what she has to say. And there's not a lot of small talk."

"These are not substantive disagreements. These are personality issues," he said. "But because of the way Trump looks at relations with other leaders, he has enormous difficulty distinguishing between the personal relationship he has with the leader of another country, and the fundamental US relationship with the other country as a whole."

"There's not a lot of back and forth. That's a personal style. Doesn't come anywhere close to Donald Trump's personal style," Bolton told the outlet. "My own opinion, and I can't prove this, I think he has trouble with women leaders." According to Bolton, Trump also had "had trouble" with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Prime Minister Theresa May and US President Donald Trump hold a joint press conference at Chequers on July 13, 2018, in Aylesbury, England (Getty Images)

The former National Security Adviser was asked if the president is sexist. "Time and again, we seemed to run into that difficulty," Bolton said in response, but added that Trump "had bad relationships with plenty of male leaders too". According to him, Trump's leadership has worsened the crises of coronavirus and racial division in the United States.

Bolton went so far as to claim that Trump "didn't want to hear" about Covid-19 in early January when government officials allegedly told him it was "a potentially huge problem". "He didn't want to hear bad news about his buddy, (Chinese President) Xi Jinping," the now-ousted Bolton told Sky's Cordelia Lynch. "He didn't want to hear the truth about China covering up the extent of the threat of the coronavirus. He didn't want to hear about China, maybe not fulfilling its terms under the limited trade deal he negotiated."

"And most important of all he didn't want to hear about potential bad economic news for the United States from a widespread pandemic which would endanger his ticket to re-election," he added. Bolton also addressed his controversial decision not to testify during the president's impeachment inquiry. Trump was eventually acquitted by the Senate. "The House Democrats took the impeachment process right off a cliff and halfway down they looked up and said 'hey come and join us' and I wasn't about to do that," he told Sky News.

US President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media as former National Security Adviser John Bolton listens during a meeting with President of Romania Klaus Iohannis in the Oval Office of the White House August 20, 2019, in Washington, DC (Getty Images)

Meanwhile, Trump has said Bolton "broke the law" by publishing his new tell-all book 'The Room Where It Happened' and tweeted that he was trying to get even for being sacked "like the sick puppy he is!" Bolton has, however, denied he was potentially selling himself out by publishing the memoir. "That Donald Trump is upset with me doesn't surprise me at all. His reactions, frankly, have been childish and degrading to the presidency," he told Sky News. Trump sacked Bolton last September after 17 months in the high-profile position.

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