Senate Republicans getting fed up with Trump
The Hill
August 20, 2017
President Trump's relationship with Senate Republicans is deteriorating every day.
Senate Republicans are getting fed up with what they see as Trump's lack of discipline and chaotic leadership style.
Several are criticizing him more openly than ever before.
The sharpest critique came from Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) who told constituents in Chattanooga that Trump "has not yet been able to demonstrate the stability, nor some of the competence, that he needs to demonstrate in order for him to be successful."
GOP strategists say Corker was likely unhappy with Trump's improvised line a week and a half ago about how threats from North Korea "will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen."
Trump's comment was one of the latest examples of an unscripted moments undermining his administration's or his party's more carefully crafted strategy.
"I suspect the fire and fury business got Corker's attention because that came out of nowhere," said Rich Galen, a Republican strategist, who called Corker "a truly decent man" who has "just had enough."
Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) on Friday criticized Trump for not unequivocally condemning the white supremacists who clashed with liberal protesters in Charlottesville, Va., last weekend.
Meanwhile, senators have rallied behind Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.), one of Trump's most outspoken critics, after the president tweeted Thursday morning that he was glad to see that conservative candidate Kelli Ward is running against him in the GOP primary.
Trump called Flake "toxic."
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