Despite many criticisms of Donald Trump's record in office, it has been marked by the absence of any support for military interventions in other countries – not something many of his Democratic opponents and critics can point to.
Former US Defence Secretary Robert Gates, who held the position from 2006 to 2011 under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, has been rather critical of Donald Trump in the past. In September 2016, he called the then-presidential candidate “stubbornly uninformed about the world and how to lead” the United States, as well as “temperamentally unsuited to lead our men and women in uniform”. However, when asked by the NBC's host Chuck Todd on Sunday whether his opinion of the US president has changed since then, Gates said something that might have surprised the audience.
Gates acknowledged that he still did not agree with Trump's “treatment and words about military people and military heroes like John McCain” but praised the president's “outreach” to North Korea.
Donald Trump became the first sitting president of the United States to visit North Korea in June 2019 to hold talks on denuclearization.
But it was not only Donald Trump, who once received such a harsh assessment from the former secretary of defence, but also another potential contender in 2020 presidential election.
During the interview, the NBC host recalled Gates's strong remarks about then-Vice President Joe Biden back in 2014. In his book…
