John Bolton warns: I am very concerned about how Trump will handle a much more likely international crisis

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John Bolton, former national security adviser to President-elect Donald Trump, said an international crisis was much more likely during the Republicans' second term.

Bolton, who served as Trump's national security adviser from 2018 to 2019, told the Guardian that the president-elect had an inability to focus and based his decisions on personal relationships and neural flashes.

That's typical Trump: It's just bluster, Bolton told the outlet. The world is more dangerous than when he was president. The only real crisis we had was COVID, which is a long-term crisis not against a particular foreign power but against a pandemic.

But the risk of an international crisis similar to that of the 19th century is much more likely during a second Trump term, he added. Given Trump's inability to focus on coherent decision-making, I'm very worried about what this might look like.

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Bolton said he was very concerned about how Trump might handle an international crisis during his second term (Getty Images)

The 76-year-old was no stranger to the world of defense when he joined the Trump administration. He served as Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security from 2001 to 2005 and Ambassador to the United Nations from 2005 to 2006.

Bolton said he expected Trump to deliver in his first term, as many other presidents had done before him.

What I believed was that, like all American presidents before him, the weight of responsibilities, particularly in matters of national security, the seriousness of the problems he faced, the consequences of his decisions, would discipline his thinking in a manner to produce serious consequences, Bolton told the Guardian.

It turned out I was wrong, he continued.

By the time I got there, many patterns of behavior had already been established and never changed and it may well be that even if I had gone there earlier, I would not have been able to affect them. But soon after I arrived, it became clear that intellectual discipline was not part of the Trump vocabulary.

Bolton had also criticized Trump's Cabinet picks, explaining that he was likely selecting them based on their loyalties rather than their philosophies or qualifications.

And the word loyalty is thrown around a lot, Bolton told CNN last month. I think that's the wrong word. In fact, I think what Trump wants from his advisors is loyalty, a sense of truly futile servility.

And you know, he may succeed, but I will tell you that it will not serve him well in his next term, and it certainly will not serve the country well, he continued.

Bolton left the Trump administration in September 2019, noting that he left after months of disagreement with the Republican. Trump later claimed to have fired Bolton.

Since leaving his administration, Bolton has been an outspoken critic of Trump. In 2020, he published The Room Where it Happened: A White House Memoir, a scathing account of his experience in his first administration.

I don't think he's fit for the job, Bolton said in an interview with ABC News about the book's release.

I don't think he has the skills to do this job.

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