Back Home, a Unanimous Verdict on Corker vs. Trump: That’s Just Bob
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Back Home, a Unanimous Verdict on Corker vs. Trump: That’s Just Bob
But in recent days, after saying he will not seek re-election next year, Mr. Corker has likened the White House to an “adult day care center” whose twittering inhabitant should “concern anyone who cares about our nation.” Mr. Trump has responded by mocking the 5-foot-7 Mr. Corker as “liddle,” misrepresenting his Senate record and inventing a story line
that Mr. Corker had been duped into a tape-recorded interview with .
“He is not like people think that he is,” Mr. Corker said of Mr. Trump at one
point during the campaign, praising him as “courteous, kind, respectful.”
Yet after wrestling with how thoroughly to lash a president whose temperament he had come to doubt (he did, during the spring, suggest
that the White House was in a “downward spiral”), Mr. Corker has turned to total bluntness, the logical extension of a professional life spent in near-permanent states of restlessness and cost-benefit analysis.
“Do you think if we gave it back to them,” Mr. Corker once asked an associate, Michael Compton, moments
after buying two of the largest real estate companies in town, “they’d let us try to buy it again?”
Before their latest flare-up, Mr. Corker and Mr. Trump were on semiregular speaking terms, golfing together this year with the retired N. F.L.
While Mr. Trump has accused Mr. Corker of helping to enact President Barack Obama’s
nuclear deal with Iran, Mr. Corker opposed the agreement repeatedly.
But in recent days, after saying he will not seek re-election next year, Mr. Corker has likened the White House to an “adult day care center” whose twittering inhabitant should “concern anyone who cares about our nation.” Mr. Trump has responded by mocking the 5-foot-7 Mr. Corker as “liddle,” misrepresenting his Senate record and inventing a story line
that Mr. Corker had been duped into a tape-recorded interview with .
“He is not like people think that he is,” Mr. Corker said of Mr. Trump at one
point during the campaign, praising him as “courteous, kind, respectful.”
Yet after wrestling with how thoroughly to lash a president whose temperament he had come to doubt (he did, during the spring, suggest
that the White House was in a “downward spiral”), Mr. Corker has turned to total bluntness, the logical extension of a professional life spent in near-permanent states of restlessness and cost-benefit analysis.
“Do you think if we gave it back to them,” Mr. Corker once asked an associate, Michael Compton, moments
after buying two of the largest real estate companies in town, “they’d let us try to buy it again?”
Before their latest flare-up, Mr. Corker and Mr. Trump were on semiregular speaking terms, golfing together this year with the retired N. F.L.
While Mr. Trump has accused Mr. Corker of helping to enact President Barack Obama’s
nuclear deal with Iran, Mr. Corker opposed the agreement repeatedly.