GOP/POLITICAL FIGURES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump and a senior Republican senator traded personal barbs on Twitter Sunday [10-8-17], the latest example of tensions between the president and senators in his party.
Mr. Trump criticized Sen. Bob Corker, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, who had recently suggested there is ‘chaos’ in the White House and said he wouldn’t back the GOP tax bill, a top party priority, if it added to the deficit.
Mr. Trump wrote on Sunday that Mr. Corker had announced last month that he wouldn’t seek re-election because he ‘didn’t have the guts to run’ for office without the president’s endorsement…
Mr. Trump also wrote that Mr. Corker wanted to be secretary of state but that Mr. Trump declined to offer the position. ‘Hence, I would fully expect Corker to be a negative voice’ regarding Mr. Trump’s agenda, he wrote.
Mr. Corker responded shortly after, writing: ‘It’s a shame the White House has become an adult day-care center. Someone obviously missed their shift this morning.’
In an interview with the New York Times, Mr. Corker said that Mr. Trump’s threats toward other nations risked putting the U.S. ‘on the path to World War III.’
Mr. Corker’s staff also disputed the president’s account of his decision to not seek re-election.”
-Joshua Jamerson, “President Trump, GOP Sen. Corker Trade Shots on Twitter,” The Wall Street Journal online, Oct. 9, 2017 09:16am