'Irrational decision making': Ex-Trump adviser hammers president's trade war chaos

Former Trump national security adviser John Bolton on Thursday ripped his one-time boss for causing international chaos both when it comes to the war in Ukraine and the American economy.

During an interview with CNN's John Berman, Bolton said that Trump had disrupted decades' worth of American foreign policy and diplomacy by waging economic warfare against the country's two biggest trading partners.

"I think it shows erratic, nearly irrational decision making on the president's part," Bolton said. "You know, he said in the State of the Union, he had talked to the three CEOs of the of the big American automobile manufacturers. They were all on board with the tariffs. He went after Canada and Mexico. And yesterday, according to press reports, we saw a people kneeling, begging for relief from tariffs. But it wasn't those mean Canadians, it was the CEOs of the American auto companies which the tariffs are designed to protect... instead it's Americans that are hurt."

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Bolton then challenged members of the Republican Party to do their jobs and intervene to reassert control over American economic policy.

"I think Republicans should be up in arms about this," he said. "I don't think the Republican base, or even many Democrats, voted for hidden tax increases, which is what these tariffs are. It's just unbelievable and the effects on the economy, I think, are going to be felt in a lot of ways here and abroad, most importantly in the short term, because of the uncertainty that they're creating, businesses are going to hold back from investments in key strategic decisions until they know what the lay of the land is. And since with Trump, it changes daily, I think we're going to risk a real pause in economic growth."

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