'Let's get our big boy pants on here': Rubio scolded by ex-Trump national security adviser

The epic blowup inside the Oval Office Friday that pitted Donald Trump and J.D. Vance against Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was a “disaster for the United States,” according to longtime Republican John Bolton, who delivered a searing takedown of Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

Bolton, a former national security adviser under Trump’s first administration, weighed in on the international kerfuffle during an interview on CNN’s “The Source,” where he spelled out what the catastrophic breakdown surrounding the negotiations means.

But Bolton saved his fiercest jabs for Rubio's on-air defense of the Trump administration just moments earlier – going as far as to address the former Florida senator directly

“Come on, let's get our big boy pants on here,” Bolton said. “Watching Marco on your show the first half hour was very sad for me, very sad.”

The onetime Trump administration official marveled at how Rubio was once a “strong defender of a vigorous American foreign policy in the wider world,” which he added “keeps us safer at home.”

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“And yet he talked about how hard it is to get the poor Russian regime to the table to negotiate,” Bolton continued. “One reason it's getting harder to get the Russians to negotiate is that Donald Trump is giving them everything they want.”

Bolton, a staple in Republican presidential administrations since Ronald Reagan, who also served as United Nations ambassador under George W. Bush, then grabbed onto the chance to take Rubio to school.

“And remember what kind of regime in Moscow we're talking about, Marco,” he said, wagging his finger. “This is the regime that backs Ortega in Nicaragua. It's the regime that backs Maduro in Venezuela. It's the regime that backs the post-Castro regime in Cuba, Marco. That's the Russia we're talking about.”

Bolton added that Putin “is one of the coldest blooded individuals I’ve ever met” and concluded that he hasn’t had to make an appearance at the negotiation table because “Trump’s got the flood running in his direction.

CNN’s Kaitlan Collins, who was inside the Oval Office for what devolved into a spectacular shouting match, called the event “a remarkable day” and “one for the history books.”

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