A War Of Words With Senator Bob Corker Endangers The President's Agenda
BOB CORKER IS KNOWN AROUND WASHINGTON as a pragmatist, not a hothead. So when the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee lashed back at President Donald Trump on Oct. 8, the town took notice. “It’s a shame the White House has become an adult day care center. Someone obviously missed their shift this morning,” Corker tweeted after Trump unleashed a series of attacks on the Tennessee Republican. Corker wasn’t done. In a follow-up interview he said that Trump was setting the U.S. “on the path to World War III” and treating his office like “a reality show.” And he suggested many of his Senate colleagues share this view. “He concerns me,” Corker told the New York Times. “He would have to concern anyone who cares about our nation.”
Corker’s remarks landed amid NBC News reports that Trump’s own Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, had called the President a “moron” in July after a two-and-a-half-hour visit to the Pentagon, where Trump allegedly asked for an almost tenfold increase in the nation’s nuclear arsenal. In response to NBC’s reporting, Trump threatened to boot the network from public airwaves. Taken together, the episodes left the President’s partners with new doubts about the boss’s capacity.
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