John Bolton, national security adviser in Donald Trump’s first administration and now a harsh critic of the president-elect, told Newsmax on Friday he will be proven right that Trump is just an aberration in American politics.

Bolton also told “Finnerty” he wouldn’t take back recent remarks that if Ronald Reagan were alive today, he would be “stunned” that the Republican Party had anything to do with Trump, even after the president-elect defeated Vice President Kamala Harris in the popular vote and Electoral College and ushered in GOP control of Congress.

“We’ll see on Monday what the inaugural address looks like,” Bolton, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations under George W. Bush. “I know what a Ronald Reagan second term address looked like.

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