Daily US Times: According to White House and intelligence officials intimately familiar with the contents of Trump’s hundreds of highly classified phone calls with foreign heads of state, the president was so consistently unprepared for discussion of serious issues, so often outplayed in his conversations with powerful leaders like Turkish President Recep Erdogan and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Officials said Trump’s phone calls were so abusive to leaders of America’s principal allies, that the calls helped convince some senior US officials — including two national security advisers, his former secretaries of state and defense and his longest-serving chief of staff — that the President himself posed a danger to the national security of the United States.
The calls caused former top Trump deputies — including national security advisers John Bolton and H.R. McMaster, White House chief of staff John Kelly, Defense Secretary James Mattis, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson as well as intelligence officials — to conclude that the President was often “delusional,” as two sources put it, in his dealings with foreign leaders.

These official’s concerns about the calls, especially his deference of Putin, take on new resonance with reports the president may have learned in March that Russia had offered the Taliban bounties to kill US and UK troops in Afghanistan — and yet took no action.
CNN reported citing sources that there were calls between Trump and Putin about Trump’s desire to end the American military presence in Afghanistan but the two leaders mentioned no discussion of the supposed Taliban bounties. According to the sources, Trump’s telephone discussions with an individual head of state were with Erdogan. The Turkish President sometimes phoned the White House at least twice a week and was put through directly to the President on standing orders from Trump.
Meanwhile, the President regularly bullied the leaders of America’s principal allies, especially two women: telling German Chancellor Angela Merkel that she was “stupid”, and telling Prime Minister Theresa May of the United Kingdom she was weak and lacked courage.
Trump incessantly boasted to his fellow heads of state, including North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un and Saudi Arabia’s autocratic royal heir Mohammed bin Salman about his own wealth, genius, “great” accomplishments as President, and the “idiocy” of his Oval Office predecessors, according to the sources.
In his conversations with both Putin and Erdogan, Trump took special delight in trashing former Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush and suggested that dealing directly with him — Trump — would be far more fruitful than during previous administrations.

“They didn’t know BS,” he said of Bush and Obama — one of several derisive tropes the sources said he favored when discussing his predecessors with the Turkish and Russian leaders.
More than a dozen officials either were provided detailed summaries and rough-text recording printouts of the calls soon after their completion or listened to the President’s phone calls in real time, the sources said to the CNN.
The sources did cite some instances in which they said Trump acted in the national interest and responsibly during telephone discussions with some foreign leaders. The network reached out to Tillerson, Kelly and McMaster for comment and received no response as of Monday afternoon. Defense secretary Mattis did not comment.
The White House also did not make any comment on this matter. But after CNN published the report, White House deputy press secretary Sarah Matthews denied the accusations, describing President Trump is a ”world class negotiator” who has consistently furthered America’s interests on the world stage.
”From negotiating the phase one China deal and the USMCA to NATO allies contributing more and defeating ISIS, President Trump has shown his ability to advance America’s strategic interests,” Sarah Matthews said.
One person familiar with almost all the Trump’s phone calls with the leaders of Turkey, Canada, Australia, Russia Russia and western Europe described the calls cumulatively as ‘abominations’ so grievous to US national security interests that if members of Congress heard from witnesses to the actual conversations or read the texts and contemporaneous notes, even many senior Republican members would no longer be able to retain confidence in the President.
In addition to May and Merkel, the sources said, the US president regularly disparaged and bullied other leaders of the western alliance during his phone conversations — including Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, ustralian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and French President Emmanuel Macron — in the same hostile and aggressive way he discussed the coronavirus with some of America’s governors.