US Secretary of Defense James Mattis dropped out of the circle of proxies, to whose advice President Donald Trump listens. According to NBC News, even that Washington is getting out of the nuclear deal with Iran, Mattis learned from his colleague, and then unsuccessfully tried to convince Trump on the phone not to take this decision. And this is not the only time when the president's decisions are taken by surprise by his defense minister. For example, in June, Mattis learned that the exercises of the American and South Korean armed forces had been postponed after Trump had promised to take this step to the leader of the DPRK, Kim Jong Ne.

"They (Trump and Mattis) stopped meeting face to face," the former high-ranking official of the White House told the agency. The behavior of the American president is very different from the enthusiasm with which he welcomed Mattis as Pentagon chief. Then, at the beginning of their joint work, Trump called Mattis "Mad Dog" ("Mad Dog"). However, according to informed sources, subsequently the president began to annoy that Matthys was treating him down and allowing himself to slow down the execution of Trump's orders.