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Leaked secret cables reveal messages from the United Kingdom’s ambassador to the United States making disparaging comments about President Trump.

Sir Kim Darroch, considered to be one of the U.K.’s top diplomats, referred to the president with several unflattering adjectives, including “inept” and “incompetent,” according to the Daily Mail. “For a man who has risen to the highest office on the planet, President Trump radiates insecurity,” Darroch also said.

In other messages from the ambassador meant to be seen by the British Foreign Commonwealth Office, Darroch was deeply critical of Trump’s administration and legacy. In one missive, Darroch said, “We don’t really believe this Administration is going to become substantially more normal; less dysfunctional; less unpredictable; less faction riven; less diplomatically clumsy and inept.”

Many of the messages, which span the entirety of Trump’s presidency thus far, suggest trouble in the White House and specifically related to infighting between members of the administration. Darroch said Trump’s entire life had been “mired in scandal.” He also suggested to those who might deal with the president “you need to make your points simple, even blunt.”

Although Darroch expressed great displeasure in Trump’s behavior and diplomacy, he suggested to senior politicians to “not write him off” and “that it was still possible that Trump would “emerge from the flames, battered but intact, like [Arnold] Schwarzenegger in the final scenes of The Terminator.” Darroch also suggested that Trump had a “credible path” to being reelected in 2020.

In regards to Trump’s recent visit to the U.K., Darroch cautioned London that they might be “flavour of the month” for the president and “This is still the land of America First.”

The ambassador additionally criticized Trump’s ability to follow through on promises made during his presidential campaign. “Of the main campaign promises, not an inch of the Wall has been built; the executive orders on travel bans from Muslim countries have been blocked by the state courts; tax reform and the infrastructure package have been pushed into the middle distance; and the repeal and replacement of Obamacare is on a knife edge,” he said.

Darroch skewered Trump’s response to the attacks against two oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz and the shooting-down of a U.S. Navy drone, for which the U.S. has blamed Iran. “Its unlikely that US policy on Iran is going to become more coherent any time soon. This is a divided Administration,” the diplomat said. He also said of Trump’s 11th-hour decision not to carry out a retaliatory strike against Iran, “It’s more likely that he was never fully on board and that he was worried about how this apparent reversal of his 2016 campaign promises would look come 2020.”

Of the allegations that Trump could have colluded with the Russian government to get elected Darroch said, “The worst cannot be ruled out” and that Trump’s White House has been “dogged from day one by stories of vicious infighting and chaos inside the White House, and swamped by scandals — all, one way or another, linked to Russia.”

The British Foreign Office distanced itself from Darroch’s comments. “The British public would expect our Ambassadors to provide Ministers with an honest, unvarnished assessment of the politics in their country,” a statement said. “Their views are not necessarily the views of Ministers or indeed the government. But we pay them to be candid. Just as the US Ambassador here will send back his reading of Westminster politics and personalities. Of course we would expect such advice to be handled by Ministers and civil servants in the right way and it’s important that our Ambassadors can offer their advice and for it remain confidential. Our team in Washington have strong relations with the White House and no doubt that these will withstand such mischievous behaviour.”