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Trump trashes outgoing Republican senator in public falling out

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Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump and outgoing Sen. Bob Corker launched into a Twitter spat Sunday morning in a major public falling out, making the Tennessean the latest senior Republican lawmaker to openly criticize Trump over his statements online and off.

Trump tweeted Sunday morning in a series of posts attacking Corker that he denied the senator's request for an endorsement -- a claim denied by Corker's chief of staff, Todd Womack, later in the day.
"The president called Senator Corker on Monday afternoon and asked him to reconsider his decision not to seek reelection and reaffirmed that he would have endorsed him, as he has said many times," Womack said in a statement.
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To which Corker responded...

Trump's slams on Corker come days after the senator made public comments criticizing him. The senator responded to Trump's tweets with an insult later in the morning, calling the White House "an adult day care center" in a Twitter post
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Trump trashes outgoing Republican senator in public spat - CNNPolitics

That is an EPIC comeback.
 
Congress has a 10% approval rating. Corker might want to slowdown with the daycare references.
 
apdst said:
Congress has a 10% approval rating. Corker might want to slowdown with the daycare references.
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Meh, poll numbers are ****. That much was made very clear this past November.

As far as Congress, if people hated them that badly, they wouldn't continually re-elect them.
 
Superfly said:
Meh, poll numbers are ****. That much was made very clear this past November.

As far as Congress, if people hated them that badly, they wouldn't continually re-elect them.
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Yeah, people are to stop electing members to Congress. :lamo
 
apdst said:
Yeah, people are to stop electing members to Congress. :lamo
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Guess you missed the part where I said "re-elect." You do know, don't you, that Congress can have new members of Congress simply by not voting for the incumbents?

It's really cool - there's a whole election process and everything. :roll:
 
Superfly said:
Guess you missed the part where I said "re-elect." You do know, don't you, that Congress can have new members of Congress simply by not voting for the incumbents?

It's really cool - there's a whole election process and everything. :roll:
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Whatever. :lamo

I guess you missed the past few elections.
 
apdst said:
Congress has a 10% approval rating. Corker might want to slowdown with the daycare references.
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Trump should remember he needs every Republican vote if he has a hope of getting his tax breaks for the rich thru. But that would take a plan and we all know Trump has none.
 
apdst said:
Congress has a 10% approval rating. Corker might want to slowdown with the daycare references.
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Yes because it might cost him a re-election. Oh wait.
 
apdst said:
Re-read my post.
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oh, you mean after you edited it?

Even edited, your post still doesn't mean anything. If people were that pissed at their Congressmen, they wouldn't continually vote to keep them in office. They are only in office for 2 years at a time. If they are that bad, they should be removed and replaced, like an old rusty quarter panel.
 
Top Cat said:
Yes because it might cost him a re-election. Oh wait.
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I love how these people open up about how they really feel about Trump once they realize they no longer need him.

Most people kiss his ass, either because they want something from him, or they are afraid of him.
 
iguanaman said:
Trump should remember he needs every Republican vote if he has a hope of getting his tax breaks for the rich thru. But that would take a plan and we all know Trump has none.
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he's got a plan
the same one reagan had
trickle down
massive tax breaks for the rich while insisting the country cannot afford single payer health coverage
that's how you make America great again
 
apdst said:
Congress has a 10% approval rating. Corker might want to slowdown with the daycare references.
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Clue up, swamp dog. Corker has already announced that he is not going to run for re-election.
 
justabubba said:
he's got a plan
the same one reagan had
trickle down
massive tax breaks for the rich while insisting the country cannot afford single payer health coverage
that's how you make America great again
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Actually Congress wrote that tax plan. Trump had none of his own as usual. And you forgot GW also had the same plan too. The GOP is a one trick pony. Cut our big donors taxes nothing else matters.
 
apdst said:
Congress has a 10% approval rating. Corker might want to slowdown with the daycare references.
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Trump has to have his babysitter's around. That's why General Kelly was installed as Chief of Staff. Trump cannot be controlled by anyone. No one is going to get him off of his tweety account, and or keep him on the rails when he gives a speech. That's too boring for him, and it doesn't give him the attention he craves.

According to a number of top U.S. psychologists, like Harvard professor and researcher Howard Gardner, Donald Trump is a textbook narcissist. In fact, he fits the profile so well that clinical psychologist George Simon told Vanity Fair, “He’s so classic that I’m archiving video clips of him to use in workshops.”

What is it exactly that makes someone a certifiable narcissist and not simply a person who has a healthy amount of confidence and a burning desire to achieve great goals? According to the Mayo Clinic, narcissistic personality disorder is “a mental disorder in which people have an inflated sense of their own importance, a deep need for admiration and a lack of empathy for others.

But a lack of empathy is just one part of narcissistic personality disorder. Just beneath the surface layer of overwhelming arrogance lies a delicate self-esteem that is easily injured by any form of criticism.
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https://www.rawstory.com/2016/01/a-...rder-that-makes-him-a-dangerous-world-leader/

Knowing that any President, no matter how good they are will have criticism coming in from every direction, 24 hours a day 7 days, exemplies exactly how mentally UNFIT Trump was to ever become POTUS. His mental disorder requires that he has constant attention and that attention has to come in the form of praise & adoration. Example: Obama's birth certificate kept him in the lime light and on T.V. camera's for 4 solid months and he loved every second of that attention. Even the slightest criticism, will send him into a rage--and he will be on the tweety account in the early morning hours to fire away at whomever did it. Any other President ignored criticism, didn't even comment on it, and moved forward on government matters.

Of course you saw this tendency before you voted for him. You thought it was cute, or possibly that he was just joking. Well he wasn't, you were watching the real deal, and it's not going to stop until he's out of the Oval office.

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And YES even his hairdo is done for attention. He has turned the White House into a daily, comedy T.V reality show.
 
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Superfly said:
oh, you mean after you edited it?

Even edited, your post still doesn't mean anything. If people were that pissed at their Congressmen, they wouldn't continually vote to keep them in office. They are only in office for 2 years at a time. If they are that bad, they should be removed and replaced, like an old rusty quarter panel.
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Hmm... in the Senate, e.g. folks like Bob Corker, congress critters serve 6 year terms. At any rate, unless the incumbent loses the primary, the alternative in the general election may be seen as worse yet.
 
ttwtt78640 said:
Hmm... in the Senate, e.g. folks like Bob Corker, congress critters serve 6 year terms. At any rate, unless the incumbent loses the primary, the alternative in the general election may be seen as worse yet.
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Right, Senate has 6 years. Congress only has 2.

And if the incumbent is hated as badly as polls imply, there should be no problem in having other qualified people run against him in the primary.
 
Oreo said:
Trump has to have his babysitter's around. That's why General Kelly was installed as Chief of Staff. Trump cannot be controlled by anyone. No one is going to get him off of his tweety account, and or keep him on the rails when he gives a speech. That's too boring for him, and it doesn't give him the attention he craves.


https://www.rawstory.com/2016/01/a-...rder-that-makes-him-a-dangerous-world-leader/

Knowing that any President, no matter how good they are will have criticism coming in from every direction, 24 hours a day 7 days, exemplies exactly how mentally UNFIT Trump was to ever become POTUS. His mental disorder requires that he has constant attention and that attention has to come in the form of praise & adoration. Example: Obama's birth certificate kept him in the lime light and on T.V. camera's for 4 solid months and he loved every second of that attention. Even the slightest criticism, will send him into a rage--and he will be on the tweety account in the early morning hours to fire away at whomever did it. Any other President ignored criticism, didn't even comment on it, and moved forward on government matters.

Of course you saw this tendency before you voted for him. You thought it was cute, or possibly that he was just joking. Well he wasn't, you were watching the real deal, and it's not going to stop until he's out of the Oval office.

147318_600.jpg


And YES even his hairdo is done for attention. He has turned the White House into a daily, comedy T.V reality show.
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Some narcissists, even after they lose the POTUS election, write books blaming all but themselves to try to stay relevant. Doesn't that make her brown eyes blue?
 
Superfly said:
Right, Senate has 6 years. Congress only has 2.

And if the incumbent is hated as badly as polls imply, there should be no problem in having other qualified people run against him in the primary.
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That may be true yet, since a voter may vote for (or against) at most 3 of the 535 congress critters, they can (and do?) hate the other 532 congress critters with a passion while still tolerating their own. Another problem is that House districts may be drawn such that the congress critter basically chooses their voters rather than the other way around.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas's_35th_congressional_district
 
ttwtt78640 said:
That may be true yet, since a voter may vote for (or against) at most 3 of the 535 congress critters, they can (and do?) hate the other 532 congress critters with a passion while still tolerating their own. Another problem is that House districts may be drawn such that the congress critter basically chooses their voters rather than the other way around.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas's_35th_congressional_district
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Yeah, we just finished up with a trial against Congresswoman Corrine Brown in Jacksonville. Technically, gerrymandering is supposed to be illegal, but there are too many ways around it and people get away with it. Congresswoman Brown was gerrymandering, but that's not what she was convicted of.

There's a case in SCOTUS right now that will hopefully end the confusion about gerrymandering once and for all.
 
Superfly said:
Yeah, we just finished up with a trial against Congresswoman Corrine Brown in Jacksonville. Technically, gerrymandering is supposed to be illegal, but there are too many ways around it and people get away with it. Congresswoman Brown was gerrymandering, but that's not what she was convicted of.

There's a case in SCOTUS right now that will hopefully end the confusion about gerrymandering once and for all.
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In some cases the courts have actually ordered gerrymandering in order to create majority minority districts such that voters can (s)elect candidates that look (or sound) more like they do. I would like to see a ruling (better yet a law) stating that a congressional district may contain at most part of one county. "My" congressional district contains no full county at all yet has parts of 5 counties and parts of two major cities over 80 miles apart.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas's_35th_congressional_district
 
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