Corker to join Trump on Air Force One on president's Tennessee trip

In this Oct. 30, 2017, photo, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., speaks during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on "The Authorizations for the Use of Military Force: Administration Perspective" on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)
In this Oct. 30, 2017, photo, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., speaks during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on "The Authorizations for the Use of Military Force: Administration Perspective" on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

NASHVILLE - Call it the president and senator's most excellent adventure.

Despite their months of public quarreling and Twitter insults over some 4 1/2 months, U.S. Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., is scheduled to touchdown in Nashville Monday aboard Air Force One with, yup, President Donald Trump.

Trump is speaking before the American Farm Bureau Federation's 99th annual convention at Nashville's Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center.

Corker's office confirmed the flight which was first reported by The Tennessean.

"Yes," said Corker spokeswoman Micah Johnson when asked about the par traveling together, "he will be traveling with the president on Air Force One to Nashville on Monday."

Corker said in a statement that "helping rural Tennessee grow and prosper remains a priority, and I look forward to being in Nashville on Monday for President Trump's address to Farm Bureau members from across the Volunteer State and around the country."



He added that "continuing to advance trade, roll back burdensome federal regulations and implement pro-growth policies will help our rural communities, and I am glad the president is keeping his commitment and giving the voice of America's farmers and ranchers a seat at the table on these critical issues."

Whether the president and senator will discuss their differences during the flight isn't known, although Corker has said he and the president do still talk to one another.



Their public feud began in August when Corker criticized Trump's ambivalent remarks about who was at fault during racially motivated protests in Charlottesville over Confederate statues that ended in the death of a woman by a man who had voiced racist and pro-Nazi views. The man was later charged with murder.

Corker, whom Trump had considered as his pick as a running mate and later as Secretary of State, said the president had "not yet been able to demonstrate the stability nor some of the competence that he needs to demonstrate in order to be successful."



Trump later mocked the senator as "Liddle" Bob Corker, said "he couldn't get elected dog catcher in Tennessee" and "dropped out of the race in Tennessee when I refused to endorse him."

There have been other exchanges between the two blunt-spoken pols. Corker, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman, called Trump an "utterly untruthful president," described the White House as "an adult day care center" and charged Trump's tweets threatened to set the country "on the path to World War III."

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