LEAKED diplomatic cables published Sunday revealed unflattering comments from the British ambassador to the United States about the Trump administration, which he called “diplomatically clumsy and inept.”

Ambassador Kim Darroch’s critical assessment was part of several documents from 2017 to the present, which The Mail said was given in an “unprecedented leak” that it dubbed “The Washington Files.”

Some of the most inflammatory statements from Darroch came from a June 22, 2017, briefing note on the president and his team, which was prepared for top British officials, The Mail reported.

“For a man who has risen to the highest office on the planet, President Donald Trump radiates insecurity,” Darroch wrote in that memo.

“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,” Darroch wrote.

Trump responded to the leaked memos, saying Darroch “has not served the U.K. well.”

Speaking to reporters in New Jersey on Sunday, Trump said: “The ambassador has not served the U.K. well, I can tell you that.” He added: “We are not big fans of that man. ... I can say things about him but I won’t bother.”

A statement from the British Foreign Office did not dispute the documents’ authenticity and said it did not believe the “mischievious behavior” would hurt diplomatic ties with the administration.

A spokesman for the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office later said that “a formal leak investigation” would be conducted, according to the Times and NBC News.

In his 2017 briefing note, written a month after Robert Mueller was appointed special counsel to investigate Russian interference in the 2016 election, Darroch said he feared the “worst cannot be ruled out” about potential coordination between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin.

“There could have been active collusion between individuals associated with the Trump campaign and Russian intelligence, especially over the timing of release of hacked emails from inside the Clinton camp,” he said. “Dodgy Russian financiers may have bailed out the Trump and Kushner enterprises when both were at risk of bankruptcy in previous decades.”

And, Darroch said, “Trump’s attempts to close down the FBI investigation” into former national security adviser Michael Flynn “might amount to obstruction of justice.”

But despite the scandals swirling around the White House, Darroch said Trump could still win a second term.

Darroch called the administration’s policy toward Iran “incoherent” and “chaotic.”

Darroch said he did not believe Trump’s explanation that he aborted a planned military strike against Iran in retaliation for a downed unmanned drone because he was concerned about Iranian casualties.

On June 17, Darroch shared his views on Trump’s recent diplomatic visit to the U.K.

“With this unorthodox President, there were genuine risks,” he said. But he wrote that “the gamble” paid off.

(SD-Agencies)