Remarks by Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., about President Donald Trump at the Rotary Club of Chattanooga Thursday may get him on the president’s growing naughty list of fellow Republicans, but beyond the senator’s remarks about “stability” and “competence” are words we believe are most important.
“[O]ur nation and our world need for him to be successful, whether you are a Republican or Democrat,” he told club members.
Following eight years where a president governed against the majority domestically and backed the country down from playing a leadership role in the world, Trump came into office with an opportunity to, and the enthusiasm for, righting the ship.
He said he wanted to take on the challenges of health care program and tax reform, to shut off the Southern border from illegal immigration and to drive the country to “win again” on the foreign stage. It was music to the ears of his supporters and to those who sought a radical change from the divisive politics of the recent past.
Unfortunately, we’ve had seven months of distractions – Trump’s entire term to date. Much of it has come from the left, whose visceral hate of the president for winning the election has caused it to attempt to drive a wedge between Trump and the country. But just as much as come from Trump, who has shown a penchant for speaking without thinking, who has to answer every critic and who apparently is unable to rise above the fray.