Schumer hits Trump: Stop tweeting, start leading

Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) knocked President Trump on Tuesday for the president’s ongoing Twitter feud with a prominent GOP senator, arguing that it’s a distraction.

“I’ve just seen that President Trump has resumed his Twitter war with another member of this body, our friend from Tennessee,” Schumer said from the Senate floor. “It’s long past time for the president to quit his daily compulsion to engage in Twitter feuds and instead get to work for the American people.” 

Trump is locked in a growing spat with Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), the chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee and a key vote on tax reform.

{mosads}Schumer added that the country’s problems “are too entrenched and complex to be solved if the president spends his time in a meaningless war of words on Twitter.”

“Today with this person, tomorrow with that. We need President Trump to roll up his sleeves and get to work … to stop tweeting, to start leading,” he said.

Trump is scheduled to travel to Capitol Hill on Tuesday to meet with GOP senators.

The latest dust-up with Corker comes after the Tennessee Republican criticized Trump during a morning interview on NBC’s “Today” show. The two then traded insults over Twitter, with Trump saying he refused to endorse Corker in a potential reelection bid. Corker, who is retiring, has denied that claim.

Corker further unloaded against Trump in an interview with CNN, saying he wouldn’t support him in a future election, didn’t think he was a role model for children and that he is debasing the country.

“I don’t know why he lowers himself to such a low, low standard and debases our country in the way that he does, but he does,” Corker said. “I think the debasing of our nation … will be what he’ll be remembered most for.”