Retired four-star Army Gen. Barry McCaffrey is blasting President Trump for Trump's "inane" behavior amid controversy over the president's call to the widow of a fallen soldier.

“We’re cruising toward a war with North Korea, and for eight days we’ve watched inane behavior by the president, Congresswoman Wilson and the chattering class in Washington,” McCaffrey said in an interview with The Washington Post.

“It really makes me sick, to be honest. I’m sure his phone call with the widow was absolutely disastrous. He wings stuff. He doesn’t have any empathy. But I think there’s a larger issue: What are we doing here?”

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McCaffrey added that he's beginning to wonder if "the country's losing its moorings."

Trump has been embroiled in controversy during the past week over comments he made to the widow of Sgt. La David Johnson.

Rep. Frederica Wilson Frederica Patricia WilsonHarris calls it 'outrageous' Trump downplayed coronavirus House passes bill establishing commission to study racial disparities affecting Black men, boys Florida county official apologizes for social media post invoking Hitler MORE said last week that Trump told Jonson's widow, Myeshia Johnson, that her husband "knew what he signed up for." Trump denied Wilson's account and has repeatedly attacked the Florida Democrat.

Johnson on Monday confirmed the account of Wilson and said she was "hurt" by some of the comments Trump made.

“Whatever Ms. Wilson said was not fabricated, what she said was 100 percent correct,” Johnson said. “Why would we fabricate something like that? … I was very angry at the tone of his voice and how he said it.”

On Monday, Trump tweeted he had a "very respectful conversation" with Johnson.