Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) says John Brennan is a “butthead” who deserved to have his security clearance taken away by President Trump.

When Kennedy spoke about the revocation with reporters on Wednesday, he called the former CIA director “totally political” and a failure in terms of his responsibility to rise above such things as a national intelligence figure. He also said that he doesn’t see any reason why Brennan would still need clearance anyway.

“I think I called him a butthead, and I meant it,” Kennedy said. “I think he’s given the national intelligence community a bad name.”

Trump’s decision to pull clearance from Brennan and possibly other intelligence figures caused a massive shake-up in the political and media conversation in the last 18 hours. While Sarah Huckabee Sanders claims that Brennan lost his clearance because of his “erratic,” critical commentary about the president, Trump says his decision happened because he blames Brennan and his other foes in the intelligence community for the Russia probe hanging over his head.

Watch above, via CNN.

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