Trump Responds to Corker's Remarks: 'Strange Statement'

President Donald Trump issued a response Friday morning to criticism from Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn.

Strange statement by Bob Corker considering that he is constantly asking me whether or not he should run again in '18. Tennessee not happy!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 25, 2017

Corker, the chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said that Trump "has not yet been able to demonstrate the stability nor some of the competence that he needs to demonstrate in order to be successful."

On Thursday, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said that Corker's criticism "doesn't dignify a response from this podium."

Trump has been in contact with Corker recently. He called Corker to discuss sanctions against Russia, saying the sanctions were not good policy, Politico reported Wednesday.

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