Geneva:
President Donald Trump has created a
destructive atmosphere of "chaos politics" with his prolific
use of Twitter for policy announcements and incendiary remarks
alike, former secretary of state John Kerry has said.
In an interview with Swiss public broadcaster RTS in
Geneva yesterday, Kerry slammed Trump's frequent and often
controversial tweets.
"More and more Americans are finding the tweet phenomenon
tiring, destructive and interruptive of the genuine kind of
dialogue," he said.
"I think it creates a chaos politics, and that's not
good," he added.
Trump has used Twitter as a platform to announce major
shifts in both domestic and foreign policy, to criticise
allies, taunt US adversaries and threaten North Korea.
"It is without precedent, this kind of chaotic
presidency. I can't think of any time it has been seen in
modern times," the former secretary of state said.
Kerry, who served as the top US diplomat for four years
under former President Barack Obama, was particularly critical
of Trump's tweets publicly chastising current Secretary of
State Rex Tillerson.
Earlier this month, the president for instance took to
Twitter to accuse the former ExxonMobil CEO of "wasting his
time" trying to negotiate with North Korea.
Such tweets are "very, very unproductive, very counter-
productive," Kerry said.
"I think it is very difficult to be a secretary of state
when the president is undermining you very publically, as he
has been," he added.
