They are coping with a commander-in-chief who, according to his own former secretary of state, “is pretty undisciplined, doesn’t like to read, doesn’t read briefifing reports, doesn’t like to get into the details of a lot of things, but rather just kind of says: ‘This is what I believe.’”

这里rather just kind of 是怎么修饰成分的，感觉副词好多。