(CNN) On Monday night, sources close to Donald Trump promised that he hadn't finished his feud with Tennessee Sen. Bob Corker. They weren't kidding! "The Failing @nytimes set Liddle' Bob Corker up by recording his conversation," Trump tweeted Tuesday morning. "Was made to sound a fool, and that's what I am dealing with!" Corker is relatively short in stature -- he's 5'7" -- while Trump is right around 6'3". Corker's height was, according to the Daily Caller, one of the big reasons the Tennessee Republican didn't make the cut to be Trump's secretary of state. "Two sources with knowledge of the transition say that the Tennessee senator's short stature was a key factor," the Daily Caller report said. Yes, really.President Donald Trump's has focused on Sen. Bob Corker's heightIt's the latest example of bullying by the President of the United States
As he demonstrated throughout the 2016 campaign, this is _'s default approach to politics -- and life. _'s voters seemed to overlook or condone his bullying under the theory that (a) he wasn't really serious, (b) his status as a change agent mattered more than his personal character or (c) they kind-of liked it because they hated the people he was bullying. There was some thinking -- occasionally stoked by _ himself -- that he was only acting like this because it was how he had to win the campaign. "I will be so presidential, you will be so bored," _ promised in April 2016. The first is that _'s almost-obsessive need to always respond any time he feels as though he has been attacked or his character has been questioned makes for a terrible legislative strategy. The second -- and more important -- point here is that _, whether he likes it or not, is a role model.