Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley criticized former President Donald Trump over the weekend over his mental fitness for office as well as the non-stop chaos that she says he’s always involved in.
Haley made the remarks during a Sunday CBS News interview with Margaret Brennan on “Face The Nation” ahead of the New Hampshire primaries this week.
Brennan showed video of Trump blaming Haley last week for some of the events of January 6, despite Haley having nothing to do with the events of that day. It appears that Trump misspoke, confusing Haley for then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA).
“Is that the first time you questioned his mental fitness?” Brennan asked.
“If you look, recently, there have been multiple things,” Haley said. “I mean, he’s claimed that Joe Biden was going to get us into World War II. I’m assuming he met World War III. He said that he ran against President Obama. He never ran against President Obama. He says that I’m the one that kept security from Jan- from the Capitol on January 6. I was nowhere near the Capitol on January 6. But Margaret, you don’t be surprised if you have someone that’s 80 in office, their mental stability is going to continue to decline.”
She said that while she served in the Trump administration, she did not see anything that made her question Trump’s mental fitness for office but said at times she had to call him out on things and encourage him to make different decisions.
She said that Trump is not at the same level as he was in 2016 and that the bigger problem was that “no matter what it is, chaos follows him. Rightly or wrongly, chaos follows him.”
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“In some cases, he causes it. In some cases, he doesn’t,” she continued. “But regardless, he’s like a magnet to it. And so what happens is that puts the rest of America in chaos, and people are tired, and they’re worried. I mean, kids right now in their 20s, they don’t know if they’re ever going to be able to afford a home. They don’t know how this debt is gonna get paid down. They don’t know if they’re gonna find a job. You see people living- 60% of Americans living paycheck to paycheck. People talk about the economy that Donald Trump had us in, it was good, but he put us $8 trillion in debt in just four years. That’s not what you do.”