Staff photo by Tim Barber U.S. Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., speaks to the Rotary Club of Chattanooga Thursday at the Chattanooga Convention Center.When U.S. Sen. Bob Corker comes to his hometown and tells the Rotary Club that President Donald Trump has not demonstrated the stability or competence to be a successful president, it’s a jaw-dropper.
And when Corker tells Rotarians that the nation will be in peril unless there are “radical changes ” at the White House, it’s a sure bet things are horrifyingly chaotic in Washington.
Corker, a former mayor of Chattanooga, 10-year veteran of the Senate and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, isn’t prone to criticizing fellow congress members of either party – let alone the Republican President of the United States.
So when Corker resolutely cut the knees from beneath the Trump presidency using words like “stability” and “competence” and “peril” almost in the same breath and in a roomful of Chattanooga’s top professionals and business leaders, the earth moved.
Talking to a gaggle of reporters afterward, Corker said all that a second time – on camera and on tape. The statements went viral in no time – from cable news stations to The New York Times and Washington Post.