This is Michael Cohen and you're listening to the Mayer Culpa podcast with just 15 days

to go before the November 3rd election. My next guest delivers a scathing rebuke of President

Trump's leadership and overall fitness for command. Lieutenant General Mark Hurtling

served in the army for 38 years and rose to become the commanding general of the U.S.

Army Europe, a position once held by Eisenhower. He's joined me today to deliver the president

a knockout blow to his fragile ego in a no-hold bar assessment of the King of Chaos himself.

Part of me wants to pay someone to drive to the White House to set up a giant loud speaker

on Pennsylvania Avenue and blare this episode at top volume so the president can hear what

his generals truly think of him. Of all the weeks we've spent deconstructing Trump's

sociopathy, his lack of moral compass, his racism and callous disregard for human life,

today's episode I believe is one that would trigger him the most. Part of Trump's

self-mythology and autocratic bluster comes from his school girl worship of generals.

Trump models himself in his mind at least on the swashbuckling World War II heroes Douglas

McArthur and George S. Patten. But these are an accurate representations based on historical

study. Rather, his view of these men is based solely on their portrayal in various Hollywood films.

Remember, Trump doesn't read, not at all, not even his own books. So he literally gets all

his information from cable television and bright-bart or from movies. The man is like everyone's

racist uncle that way. After the godfather, Trump's favorite movie is Patten and his Twitter feed

is littered with lines from the film like Americans love a winner and will not tolerate a loser.

Americans love a winner and will not tolerate a loser. Americans play the way in all the time.

I wouldn't give a hoot-and-hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost

and will never lose a war. It's an easy way for a man who dodged a Vietnam draft with

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