When entering the office of Dennis Jett, one thing becomes abundantly clear — he made an impression wherever he went.

One wall is covered with signed pictures of him with political figures ranging from Jimmy Carter to Al Gore and even Nelson Mandela. Another wall is covered in newspaper clippings of articles and political cartoons he was featured in over the years.

Jett, now a professor of international affairs, was once an ambassador to both Peru and Mozambique. He also spent time in Argentina, Israel, Malawi and Liberia. Jett worked for the State Department from the presidential administrations of Richard Nixon to Bill Clinton.

As a diplomat, Jett worked as a mediator between the country he was in and Washington, D.C.

“You are generally explaining to that foreign country what Washington is thinking, and you are also explaining to Washington what that foreign country is thinking when it comes to political issues, economic issues or whatever the political issue may be,” Jett said.

While Jett was in Mozambique and Peru he lived with his wife, Lynda Schuster, a former foreign correspondent for the Wall Street Journal.

The two met when Schuster was conducting interviews in Washington — Jett was one of those people.

“I interviewed Dennis, and he tried to pick me up,” Schuster said.

Although Schuster had traveled all over the world as a journalist, she said that it was different this time since she was a “ward of the state department.”

After Jett finished up in Mozambique, Jett decided it was time for a change.

“In the final years at the State Department, I got to thinking about [academia] and working on it, so I got my Ph. D. in a university in South Africa,” Jett said.

By his final year he was offered a job by the University of Florida to be their first Dean of International Programs. After working in the sunshine state for eight years, Jett made the trip up North to serve as one of the first faculty members of the School of International Affairs at Penn State.

On Sept. 21, Jett, along with 74 other former ambassadors and senior state department officials, offered a descent of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.

Within the statement, all 74 diplomats agreed they would not be supporting Trump, but rather endorsing Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine.

“Very simply, this election is different from any election we can recall,” according to the statement. “One of the candidates, Donald J. Trump, is entirely unqualified to serve as President and Commander-in-Chief.”

Jett then offered his own take on Donald Trump and his perspective presidency.

“I think Donald Trump is a threat to national security, maybe not as big a threat as Russian missiles, but Russian missiles are guided, and Donald Trump isn’t,” Jett said.

Jett outlined the two basic qualifications that Trump lacks: “personality and experience.”

He acknowledged the fact that there is a desire to have a candidate that is not associated with Washington, but he said he believes that it is a mistake.

Jett then offered a metaphor about building a hotel, but having no experience in real estate or building. He likened this to being the president, but having no experience in politics.

“Why do people think that the business of government is simple, so that somebody with no experience can step in and do it?” Jett said.

He also shot down the rationale that since Trump is a successful businessman, he would be good at running the country — “we don’t know that.”

Jett said there are three “possible” reasons that Trump does not release his tax returns.

One, Jett suspects, is that he cheats on them. Another is that he is not that great a businessman and never made that much money and the third reason is that he is not nearly as charitable as he claims to be, Jett said.

“He has a fake little foundation, with no staff, that buys portraits of himself to put in his golf clubs around the county,” Jett said of the Donald Trump Foundation.

The other thing Jett said he feels Trump lacks is the right temperament. He also cited him having “no compassion or understanding” as well.

“Statement, after statement, after statement indicates that he not only doesn’t know, but doesn’t care about other people,” Jett said.

Jett said Trump gets “angry,” “red faced” and “aggressive” when things do not go his way.

As for why Trump is doing so well in the polls recently, Jett said Clinton is an unpopular candidate and he thinks the campaign has successfully “demonized” her.

“They have created fake incidents, like Benghazi,” Jett said. “The Benghazi thing is a total fraud.”

The Trump campaign has been very successful in creating an image of her that is inaccurate, but does tend to stick, Jett said.

Jett also condemned people who he said are misogynistic, and would never vote for a woman as president.

“In the same way that there was a percentage of people who were essentially racist who weren’t going to vote for a black man, there are people who are misogynists who aren’t going to vote for a woman,” Jett said.

Dissatisfaction with Congress is another reason why Jett said he believes Trump is doing as well as he is. Jett said if he were a West Virginia coal miner, he would be upset at the way things are going also.

Something else the statement by the ambassadors referenced were Trump’s “ignorances.”

“In his frequent statements about foreign countries and their citizens, from our closest friends to our most problematic competitors, Mr. Trump has expressed the most ignorant stereotypes of those countries,” according to the statement. “He has inflamed their people.”

Jett described the scope of Trump’s “ignorances” as “everything.” He went on to say that he is not confident that Trump knows anything other than real estate.

“He demonstrates over and over again that he has no grasp of foreign policy,” Jett said. “He has no grasp of international affairs. He has no grasp of domestic policy. He knows nothing other than real estate. That’s where he made his supposed money.”

Jett also said he has little faith Trump would surround himself with the right people if he were elected, describing the people he has surrounded himself with thus far as “disgusting,” citing Stephen Bannon, the chairman of the Trump campaign, as a white supremacist.

Another problem Jett said he has with Trump is that facts and words do not matter to him — every day Trump changes his position on something.

“You have absolutely no way of knowing what this guy is going to do in office, or who he is going to select, or who he is going to have work for him,” Jett said.