"When I was there, his narcissism would be on display because he would passionately want to do something that seemed out of bounds but people like Gen. Kelly and Gen. Mattis, Nikki Haley, were there to talk him out of it. They don't have those guardrails there today."
"There should be some concern that people are using this, using his incapacity, to manipulate decisions. In connection with the decision to go into Iran, Netanyahu did exactly that."
Ty Cobb expressed concerns about the current state of affairs within the Trump administration, highlighting the absence of experienced advisors who previously acted as guardrails. He noted that Trump's narcissism was previously tempered by figures like Gen. Kelly and Gen. Mattis, but those individuals are no longer present. Cobb warned that this vacuum could allow bad actors to manipulate decisions, citing Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu as an example of someone who might exploit Trump's cognitive decline to influence U.S. foreign policy, particularly regarding Iran.
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