Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) went on the record Monday night by saying he thinks President Donald Trump is “insane.”
That’s what he told CNN host Anderson Cooper on “Anderson Cooper 360,” per Mediaite.
Cooper asked the senator if European leaders could “de-escalate” and “reason with the president” over his continued threats too take over Greenland.
“No, and I’ve been very clear. He is a madman. He is insane. He’s only thinking about himself,” Gallego said.
“You really think he’s insane?” Cooper asked.
“Yes! I’m sorry, where are we at this moment where we don’t understand what’s happening in this country?” Gallego answered. “The man is threatening war against a NATO ally and we’re all thinking this is rational. Let’s accept what’s happening here. He is not rational right now. He is destroying our world reputation, potentially our economic opportunity, economic mighty power around the world because he is being petty.”
“None of this is rational. Everyone needs to stop pretending this is rational,” Gallego continued.
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He also responded to Trump stating he was no longer thinking “purely of peace.”
“It concerns me a lot because the people that end up paying the price of when leaders don’t think about peace first are young men from Ohio, from New Mexico, from Arizona, from New York that end up going and fighting these dumb wars,” Gallego said.
“A leader that doesn’t think first about peace has never experienced war,” he added. “And it’s going to be a young woman or a young man that’s going to end up dying in Greenland because of a dumb man’s decision and a petty man’s decision to take care first of his ego instead of national security.”
This is not the first time Gallego has spoken ill of Trump.
In September, he called Trump “an idiot” as he told CNN anchor Boris Sanchez, “Look, the president’s an idiot… He doesn’t actually understand how the military works.”
