Reddit Politics Summary Tuesday Oct 10th 17

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Trump threatens to 'compare IQ tests' with Tillerson after 'moron' report

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Mensa offers to host IQ test for Trump and Tillerson

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Donald Trump threatens to 'change tax law' to penalise NFL over 'take a knee' protests

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Colts players wore black t-shirts reading "We Will" on the front and "Stand for equality, justice, unity, respect, dialogue, opportunity" on the back. More than 20 members of the 49ers squad kneeled before the game.
Former 49ers player Colin Kaepernick initiated the practice last year, after first sitting out the national anthem in protest at police brutality of black people. A number of NFL players have kneeled during the national anthem as a form of peaceful protest in the past few weeks.

The bizarre situation where only retiring Republicans will talk about Trump’s fitness for office

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Bob Corker’s warning that President Donald Trump’s recklessness could set the country "on the path to World War III," issued in a New York Times interview on Sunday, is notable for a few reasons.
For another, this is coming publicly from a Republican senator in a conservative state who chairs a major committee, has worked closely with the administration, and has had strong relationships with several of its officials.
But perhaps most noteworthy of all is that Corker only felt empowered to make such a bold critique after he had decided to retire rather than run for reelection in 2018 .

Poll: Trump approval falls in every state

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A Morning Consult survey found that Trump's national job performance numbers have also dropped since January. In September, 43 percent of respondents said they approved of Trump's performance, and 52 percent disapproved.

NYT reporter fires back at Trump: Corker recorded interview too

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"I understand we’re on the record. I don’t like normally talking to you on the record — I’m kidding you — but I will," Corker says, according to a transcript of the interview with the Times.

President Trump’s temper tantrums are coming at an accelerating pace

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Bannon was no longer inside the White House to rile up the president, the hard-working staff here at Spoiler Alerts did start to wonder whether some degree of normality could be achieved.
The first thing that set off the president was the spectacle of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson trying to swat down well-sourced stories that he had called Trump a "f***ing moron." Alas, Dexter Filkins’s New Yorker profile of Tillerson just made both the secretary of state and the president look worse.