Posted on 10/10/2017 10:11:18 AM PDT by reaganaut1
WASHINGTON — President Trump escalated his attack on Senator Bob Corker on Tuesday by ridiculing him for his height, even as advisers worried that the president was further fracturing his relationship with congressional Republicans just a week before a vote critical to his tax cutting plan.
Mr. Trump gave Mr. Corker, a two-term Republican from Tennessee and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, a derogatory new nickname — “Liddle Bob” — after the two exchanged barbs in recent days. He suggested Mr. Corker was somehow tricked when he told a reporter from The New York Times that the president was reckless and could stumble into a nuclear war.
In labeling Mr. Corker “liddle,” the president was evidently returning to a theme. He considered Mr. Corker for secretary of state during the transition after last year’s election but was reported to have told associates that Mr. Corker, at 5-foot-7, was too short to be the nation’s top diplomat. Instead, Mr. Trump picked Rex W. Tillerson, who is several inches taller but whose own relationship with the president has deteriorated to the point that he was said to have called Mr. Trump a “moron.”
Mr. Tillerson initially did not deny it, but later had a spokeswoman insist he did not say it. The president, in a new interview with Forbes magazine, said he considered it “fake news” but added that if it were true, he would beat Mr. Tillerson in an I.Q. contest.
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You’re probably on the wrong site. He’ll crush anyone in 2020 on the Repuke side. Most people on this site believe the country is under attack. If you believe that, you’re not worried that he mocks the people who are destroying the country. By the way, mocking them makes it less likely that they’ll be able to do all of this with the cover of dark.
They haven't supported any of his proposals, he finally figured out it's war with these establishment do nothings.
No Dem President would take on establishment Dems nor would have to as they are all boot lickers.
People like you epitomize what’s wrong with the Republican Party these days.
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I’m totally in Trumps corner. It’s the GOP senators and congressmen that I hope are someone else after the next election.
They’ve been feeding the GOP base lies and now that there is a Conservative president, they side with democrats.
Either the GOPe has been totally compromised with democrats in in GOP colors, or they have been bought. Either way they need to go.
Trump can stay.
Abraham Lincoln viciously ridiculed the physical appearance of those with whom he debated. This, at a time people believe our country was at its most civil.
Read some history and shut your trap.
i imagine that the classic adult response would be that they are both guilty. timeouts!
The "adults" have f#%&ed this country up beyond recognition. It's time for every one of them to be sent packing.
Trum 2020. MAGA!!!!
Trump 2020. MAGA!!!!
I think you miss the point.
Trump is trying to build the reputation as the honey badger of politics
Our political system seems predicated on the assumption of some in politics that there is no the a president will go there
Trump wants to make sure nobody ever makes the mistake of thinking they can get away with something because it’s a place the President will not go
Corker is a short butt little jerk...
How sad to spend a lifetime in the SENATE to be known in the annals of history as “LIDDLE BOB.” Words mean something. LOL
>>>President Trump escalated his attack on Senator Bob Corker on Tuesday by ridiculing him for his height
Perhaps this explains his support for “Big Luther” Strange. It’s all about height.
Porker is an idiot , just retire old fossil ..
I think Liddle Bob got a serving of Liddle Covfefe this morning. LOL.
R1,
Maybe Romney will run?
You were Nevertrumpin’ and rooting for the “dignified” Hillary.
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