Trump, Corker set aside spat for visit with farmers

WASHINGTON—Despite public spats, Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., plans to join President Donald Trump aboard Air Force One on Monday to travel to Nashville, Tenn., for the American Farm Bureau Federation’s 99th Annual Convention. Trump will deliver a speech to ranchers and farmers Monday afternoon. Corker will be one of several members of Tennessee’s congressional delegation to join the president for the speech. The travel arrangements came as a surprise since Corker, who announced he would not seek reelection this year, spent much of the end of 2017 quarreling with the president. Their public feud started in August when Corker criticized Trump’s response to violent white supremacist protests in Charlottesville, Va. After Corker’s retirement announcement in September, the president said Corker “couldn’t get elected dog catcher in Tennessee” and claimed the senator dropped out because Trump would not endorse him. Corker denied he ever requested an endorsement from the president and equated the White House to “an adult day care center.” After his speech in Nashville, Trump plans to travel to Atlanta for Monday night’s College Football Playoff championship game between Georgia and Alabama.