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By PETER BAKER
OCTOBER 10, 2017
WASHINGTON President Trump escalated his attack on Senator Bob Corker on Tuesday by ridiculing him for his height, even as advisers worried that the president was further fracturing his relationship with congressional Republicans just a week before a vote critical to his tax cutting plan.
Mr. Trump gave Mr. Corker, a two-term Republican from Tennessee and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, a derogatory new nickname Liddle Bob after the two exchanged barbs in recent days. He suggested Mr. Corker was somehow tricked when he told a reporter from The New York Times that the president was reckless and could stumble into a nuclear war.
In labeling Mr. Corker liddle, the president was evidently returning to a theme. He considered Mr. Corker for secretary of state during the transition after last years election but was reported to have told associates that Mr. Corker, at 5-foot-7, was too short to be the nations top diplomat. Instead, Mr. Trump picked Rex W. Tillerson, who is several inches taller but whose own relationship with the president has deteriorated to the point that he was said to have called Mr. Trump a moron.
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/10/10/us/politics/trump-corker-feud-tweet-liddle-bob.html?_r=0
cilla4progress
(24,736 posts)America has been exposed as a middle school lunchroom.
While we are staring down the barrel of a nuclear threat.
Jeez, what could go wrong.
JaneQPublic
(7,113 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)This looks soooo normal to our major media outlets. I don't know why.
CatMor
(6,212 posts)Putin 5'7"
Medvedev 5'4"
Kim Jong-Un 5'7"
Macron 5'9"
etc.
LuckyCharms
(17,441 posts)Then wait for the jealous tweet storm.
ProfessorGAC
(65,058 posts)As a member of the same generation (Corker is 4 years and a month older than me), i can say that 5'7" is not little.
The average height of that generation of men is 5'9" (which is me) with a standard deviation of 2.4 inches. So, around 60% of all men in that generation are between 5'7" and 5'11". So, there would be nearly 20% of all men of that generation who are shorter than Corker. And since one in every 20 is shorter than 5 feet 4.25 inches, there are a lot of guys in our generation who are considerably shorter than Corker.
So, once again, the bully is not just a mean spiriting jackass, but is completely wrong.
Irish_Dem
(47,117 posts)awesomerwb1
(4,268 posts)The liddle f-er, his height was not a problem was it? Although he's 7' tall in racist.