U.S. Sen. Bob Corker today called for “radical changes” in the White House to bring more stability and confidence to Donald Trump’s presidency.
“The president 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 – and our nation and our world needs for him to be successful, whether you are Republican or Democrat,” Corker told the Chattanooga Rotary club today.
In some of his sharpest criticisms yet of President Trump, the Tennessee Republican chided Trump for his comments about the fatal protest rally last weekend in Charlottesville, Va., Trump’s “hot rhetoric” about North Korea and his tweets criticizing fellow Republicans in the Congress.
“We’re at a point where there needs to be radical changes at the White House – it has to happen,” Corker told reporters following his luncheon address. “He (President Trump) recently has not demonstrated that he understands the character of our nation – what has made it great and what it is today. He’s got to demonstrate the characteristics of a president who understands that. Without those things happening, our nation is going to go through great peril.”
Corker, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said Trump “needs to move beyond himself and move to a place where he thinks what is best for the nation.”