Washington Post opinion writer and former Foreign Policy magazine editor David Rothkopf pulled no punches Monday in a verbal assault on President Trump’s foreign policy skills. In an appearance on MSNBC Live With Stephanie Ruhle, Rothkopf declared, among other things, that Trump is "a liar, he’s undependable, he doesn’t know what he’s doing.”

Newsbusters reports that Rothkopf launched into his tirade after host Ruhle asked about Trump's handling of North Korea's aggression.

"President Trump has established himself in the minds of world leaders in a few ways," began Rothkopf. "He’s a liar, he’s undependable, he doesn’t know what he’s doing. He doesn’t control really what’s going on in his administration. He doesn’t read up on the issues. And he is cowed by bullies from Putin to the Middle East. And so, you know, when South Korea sees that, they have to be worried."

Nonetheless, Rothkopf admitted that even the Clinton administration had trouble dealing with North Korea:

I was talking to some people from the Clinton administration – I served in the Clinton administration – from their Defense Department. In the mid-1990s, they faced a crisis like this. And these liberal, thoughtful Democrats looked at the situation and the risk of North Korea getting nuclear weapons and they said, “You know, we ought to go to war.”

These were Democrats in the ‘90s. So you have to recognize that there are a lot of people who are not screaming right-wing maniacs who recognize that the threat of North Korea with nuclear weapons, the ability of Kim Jong-Un to push a button and eliminate a city in the United States, is so grave that really dire measures may be essential.

After The Wall Street Journal’s Shelby Holliday pointed out that new White House Chief of Staff John Kelly “gives a lot of people confidence” on foreign policy matters, Rothkopf dismissed the former Marine Corps general's credentials too:

Where is Chief of Staff Kelly? You know, that hasn’t changed, he’s – the President’s out of control. And on top of that, if you ask the people who served with Kelly when he was the commander at Southern Command, they would say respectable guy, has sacrificed a lot for his country, and not really very good at foreign policy, not a foreign policy specialist.

In Barack Obama's entire eight years in office, did anyone in the mainstream media ever denigrate him as an undependable liar who doesn't know what he's doing and is cowed by international bullies?