A former advisor to Barack Obama and Joe Biden has suggested Donald Trump is "out of the loop" on his own administration.
Jen Psaki, who appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, was asked whether Trump is "out of the loop" on Secretary of War Pete Hegseth's actions. Psaki, who was an advisor to both Obama and Biden during their presidencies, has suggested Trump does not have a grasp on what is going on throughout his administration, let alone in the war room.
Colbert asked, "You worked for two Commanders-in-Chief and I'm just curious when you look at the various ways that these strikes on these boats, these alleged drug boats, that when these strikes have been originally reported and ordered."
"When you hear about why there was a second strike, actually it was a third strike, actually there was a fourth strike, and Donald Trump says, 'I don't know what any of that was about', have you ever seen another commander-in-chief so out of the loop when it comes to, specifically, acts of war against another nation?"
Psaki replied, "I mean, I've never seen another president out of the loop, period, so much. National security issues, it's true, I hate to say that, it's sad to say that and he's also very sleepy, but national security issues...
"I worked for two presidents and it's not just that they were up to speed on what was happening, they demanded to know what was happening. I would be sitting in the Oval Office with President Obama, with President Biden, and there might be any range of military actions, not illegal ones happening where people are being killed, war crimes, not those, but any type of military action.
"They might be in the middle of a meeting about something else and they would say, 'I need an update from the Secretary of Defense. I need an update from the National Security Advisor.'"
"Because they felt the most serious thing and decision that came to their desk was decisions about life and death, putting our men and women in uniform out of harm's way. That's what I experienced."
