Ex-defence secretary responds to US president calling him ‘the world’s most overrated general’
The former US defence secretary James Mattis has laughed off an insult hurled at him by Donald Trump.
Speaking at a New York charity event on Thursday, the day after the US president demeaned him as “the world’s most overrated general”, Mattis joked that he took it as a compliment.
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