Preet Bharara joins Bob Corker in mocking Trump for threatening news networks

Preet Bharara, former US Attorney and a known critic of US President Donald Trump, mocked him for trying to threaten news networks. Bharara was appointed by Barack Obama as US Attorney for Manhattan where he served for many years before being fired by Trump this March, a fact that Bharara has mentioned in his Twitter bio.

While replying to a tweet where Trump indicated he might challenge broadcast license of media houses, Bharara quipped, "Adult day care shift alert, please report for duty", in an apparent reference to Republican Senator Bob Corker, a supporter-turned-critic of Trump, who has called the US president a political novice whose outbursts have become so routine that the White House has become an adult day care centre.

Adult daycare shift alert. Please report for duty. https://t.co/NgAP03X4xp- Preet Bharara (@PreetBharara) October 11, 2017

Bob Corker heads the powerful US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations and has been a strong anti-Trump voice on issues like Trump Administration's handling of the North Korean nuclear crisis and the changes Trump is trying to make to the US tax regime. Trump and Corker are engaged in a bitter war of words these days and they routinely exchange barbs.

It's a shame the White House has become an adult day care center. Someone obviously missed their shift this morning.- Senator Bob Corker (@SenBobCorker) October 8, 2017

Bharara also questioned if it was possible to a get a ruling it happens so tagging Ajit Pai, Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the agency that regulates the media and communications industry in the US.

Hey @AjitPaiFCC can we get a ruling? https://t.co/NgAP03X4xp- Preet Bharara (@PreetBharara) October 11, 2017

Earlier in the day,Trump had blasted the NBC Newsalleging it for producing a fake story which said Trump had asked for tenfold rise in US nuclear arsenal in a meeting with national security officials earlier this summer after which Rex Tillerson, the US Secretary of State, had termed him a "moron".

While dismissing the row if Tillerson really called him a moron, Trump said in an interview yesterday, "I think it's fake news, but if he did that, I guess we'll have to compare IQ tests. And I can tell you who is going to win." And today, in a series of tweets, he complained that the NBC report was "pure fiction, meant to demean.

Fake @NBCNews made up a story that I wanted a "tenfold" increase in our U.S. nuclear arsenal. Pure fiction, made up to demean. NBC = CNN!- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 11, 2017