Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump fired back at Secretary of State John Kerry Monday morning, after Kerry called the GOP primary an “embarrassment” to the country, and said Kerry and President Obama are the real embarrassments.
“I’m shocked by him, and I am shocked that he’d sign something like the Iran deal … a horrible, horrible, embarrassing deal,” Trump said on “Fox and Friends.” “I’m shocked by his policy of open door. I’m shocked by just about everything that he’s done and everything that President Obama has done. It’s leading this country down, we’re being taken down.”
Trump’s “open door” comment appeared to be reference to the Obama administration’s push to allow Syrian refugees into the country.
“This open door policy is catastrophic, and it’s going to lead — I mean, you talk about downfall, this could lead to the downfall of the greatest nation on earth,” Trump added.
The comments were a direct response to Kerry as he made the rounds on the Sunday morning talk shows. Kerry told CBS’ “Face The Nation” that heads of state everywhere ask about the race, and called the GOP contest an “embarrassment to our country.”
“Everywhere I go, every leader I meet, they ask about what is happening in America,” Kerry said. “They cannot believe it. I think it is fair to say that they’re shocked. They don’t know where it’s taking the United States of America.”
“It upsets people’s sense of equilibrium about our steadiness, about our reliability, and to some degree I must say to you, some of the questions, the way they’re posed to me, it’s clear to me that what’s happening is an embarrassment to our country.”
