--- title: Donald Trump Calls Bob Corker 'Liddle,' the Internet Reacts description: The Internet had a field day attempting to get to the bottom of Trump's new nickname for Tennessee Republican Sen. 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Bob Corker harshly criticized President Donald Trump anew on Tuesday, calling him an "utterly untruthful president" and saying he would not support his reelection._  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Oct 24, 2017 5:44 PM UTC Tennessee Republican Sen. Bob Corker harshly criticized President Donald Trump anew on Tuesday, calling him an "utterly untruthful president" and saying he would not support his reelection.  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Oct 24, 2017 5:44 PM UTC Following [President Donald Trump’s Tuesday morning tweet spree](http://time.com/4994789/donald-trump-twitter-bob-corker/) criticizing [Republican Sen. Bob Corker](http://time.com/4994797/bob-corker-donald-trump/?xid=homepage), the Internet had a field day attempting to get to the bottom of Trump’s new nickname for the Tennessee congressman: [“Liddle’ Bob Corker.”](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/922830229525225477) “Sen. Corker is the incompetent head of the Foreign Relations Committee, & look how poorly the U.S. has done,” [he wrote](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/922828476872318976). “He doesn’t have a clue as the entire World WAS laughing and taking advantage of us. People like liddle’ Bob Corker have set the U.S. way back. Now we move forward!” Trump’s controversial comments came in the wake of Corker telling NBC’s _Today_ show that the White House should [“step aside”](http://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/24/bob-corker-trump-tax-feud-244101) and let Congress handle tax legislation. Twitter quickly jumped on the reignited feud, adding their own commentary on Trump’s insult. “Bob Corker stood in hall of our Gov’t and told reporter Trump is liar + unfit for office,” [**Jeremy Newberger**](https://twitter.com/jeremynewberger) wrote. “Trump hid in his office tweeting Bob is ‘liddle.'” > [](https://twitter.com/jeremynewberger/status/922832204203528192) See a selection of the responses below. > [](https://twitter.com/DBloom451/status/922828008439910401) > [](https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/922834602439401479) > [](https://twitter.com/Lizzs%5FLockeroom/status/922831199311204353) > [](https://twitter.com/Rschooley/status/922859438779674625) > [](https://twitter.com/gettinnoticedmo/status/922861719252111360) ## Transcript [00:00] Is the President of the United States a liar? The [00:03] President has great difficulty with the truth on many [00:05] issues. Everything he said today was absolutely [00:12] untrue. You said he's an untruthful President. Yeah, no [00:14] question. No question? Yeah, no question. I mean, we [00:18] grew up in our family not using the L word, so we [00:19] [ BLANK_AUDIO ] But yeah, I mean, they're provable. [00:20] Unfortunately, I think [00:25] world leaders are very aware that [00:32] much of what he says is untrue. And the people here [00:36] are because these things are provably untrue. They're [00:40] just factually incorrect and people know the difference. [00:43] Do you regret them in the election? Let's just [00:48] put it this way, I would not do that again. You wouldn't [00:50] support them again? No, I wouldn't. I wouldn't, no. I [00:54] think that he's proven himself unable to rise to the [00:59] occasion. I don't know why he lowers himself. To such [01:02] a low, low standard and debases our country in the [01:06] way that he does. But he does. And, you know, look, I [01:08] don't like responding. You know, you can let him go [01:12] unanswered but [01:14] it's just not me to. 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