Trump called top national-security officials 'losers,' 'dopes and babies' when they tried to walk him through the basics of US diplomacy, explosive new book says

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• A July 2017 meeting between President Donald Trump and his top national security team went disastrously wrong, according to new book by two Washington Post reporters.
• Officials hoped to teach Trump about the basics of America's global role, but the president grew irate and started insulting US military leaders, said the book, named "A Very Stable Genius."
• "I wouldn't go to war with you people," Trump reportedly told the assembled brass. Addressing the room, the commander-in-chief added: "You're a bunch of dopes and babies," according to the book.
• It prompted a stunned silence around the room, with some officials feeling "sick to their stomachs," the authors wrote.
• Then-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was the only official to stand up to the president that day, the authors said.
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President Donald Trump hurled insults at top officials in an extraordinary outburst in a Pentagon meeting to educate the president on some of the basic facts of the US' role in the world, according to an explosive new book about the White House.

According to an excerpt in The Washington Post of "A Very Stable Genius" — written by Post reporters Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig — the incident took place in a secure meeting room called "The Tank" in July 2017.

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