Former U.S. Secretary of State John F. Kerry has faced fierce criticism over his comments regarding President Donald Trump, who he said had “the insecurity of a teenage girl.”
Kerry made the comments on HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher” where he was promoting his new memoir. However, soon after the late-night show began, host Bill Maher asked Kerry about one of the President’s Thursday tweets in which Trump accuses the former secretary of state of having “illegal meetings” with the Iranian government.
“BAD!” Trump wrote at the end of the tweet, which prompted Maher to ask Kerry what the President was referring to.
“I think I told the truth,” Kerry replied. “He’s the first president that I know of who spends more time reading his Twitter ‘likes’ than his briefing books or the Constitution of the United States.”
He further implied the President was a liar and claimed his lies had a damaging effect on American democracy.
“Unfortunately, we have a president, literally, for whom ‘the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth’ is three different things. And you don’t even know what they are,” the former secretary of state continued.
Kerry then said Trump had “the maturity of an 8-year-old boy” combined “with the insecurity of a teenage girl.”
In the studio, Kerry was cheered and applauded for his comments, but online his remarks were condemned, with many expressing disappointment in Kerry, even if they agreed with his assessment of Trump. Some took offense with Kerry’s generalization of girls and some cited Nobel Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai as an example of a teenage girl who was far from insecure.
Kerry is one of the Democrats often speculated to be a possible presidential candidate in 2020. For his part, Kerry has said he doubts he will run for president again.
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