Joshua Green, Columnist

The Secret Fear Behind Trump’s Attack on Corker

After the Alabama primary, how much value does a Trump endorsement really have?

October 11, 2017 at 10:42 PM UTC

Joshua Green is a national correspondent at Bloomberg Businessweek and the author of "The Rebels: Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the Struggle for a New American Politics"

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On Sunday morning, President Trump awoke and decided to pursue a favorite weekend pastime—not golf, but starting a Twitter fight. This time, he attacked Tennessee Senator Bob Corker, the respected two-term Republican who chairs the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and once was in the running to become Trump’s Secretary of State.

“Senator Bob Corker ‘begged’ me to endorse him for re-election in Tennessee,” Trump tweeted. “I said ‘NO’ and he dropped out (said he could not win without…my endorsement). He also wanted to be Secretary of State, I said ‘NO THANKS.’”