Army Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster; Donald Trump (Credit: AP/Susan Walsh) It is starting to look like a trend: President Donald Trump’s top foreign policy advisers deride his intellect in private. The insulter this time around is reported to be National Security Adviser H. R. McMaster, according to BuzzFeed. During a dinner in July with Oracle CEO Safra Catz, McMaster was quoted by several sources as referring to Trump as an “idiot.” He also was heard talking about the president as a “dope” and claimed that Trump’s intelligence was equal to that of a “kindergartner.” One source also said that McMaster had made similar remarks to him about the president’s intelligence in private. National Security Council Spokesman Michael Anton denied the story, telling reporters that “actual participants in the dinner deny that General McMaster made any of the comments attributed to him by anonymous sources.