General Jim Mattis, who served as the 26th U.S. Secretary of Defense until resigning in 2018, shares his account of three wars in which he was a top commander in his book Call Sign Chaos. As former Stranger Slog AM writer Michael Bell put it: "I want to just remind anyone who believes there ever was 'an adult in the room' that all of the people who joined Trump’s administration knew exactly who Trump was before they got into it. That alone means there never was 'an adult in the room.'" We'll leave it up to you if you want to hear Mattis for yourself.