Republican senator says any colleagues who aren’t conflicted about Trump are either ‘comatose or blind’

He says he generally has a good relationship with the president, even if they do not always get along professionally

A prominent Republican senator says that any of his colleagues who are not conflicted over the presidency of Donald Trump are “comatose” or "blind".

Bob Corker — who has been a sharp critic of Mr Trump at times, and has described his relationship with the president as “very warm” at others — made the comment during a breakfast Wednesday hosted by the Christian Science Monitor.

“Any Republican senator that hasn’t been conflicted over this presidency is either comatose or is pretty useless in their blindness, ok, and we’ve got some of both, of course — not many,” Mr Corker said.

Mr Corker, who is resigning after finishing his current term, emphasized that he has a good relationship with the president even if they disagree at times.

“I have a very warm relationship with the president. He’s very accessible, more accessible than any president probably in the history of the world,” Mr Corker continued.

Mr Corker is currently in his second term as senator for Tennessee, and is the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

During the breakfast, he continued to say that his main disagreement with the president at the moment is with his administration’s tendency to run a bit wild at times.

He said that he feels conflicted about Mr Trump because sometimes the president will sign a piece of legislation, but “then we have chaotic things that occur on a daily basis”.

“At 10 o’clock you might feel one way, at noon you might feel another way, at 2 o’clock you might feel another way,” Mr Corker said, describing how his perspective on the president evolves every day.

Mr Corker refused to say whether he would consider taking a jo in the Trump administration after he retires.

“Conjecture is bad for your health,” he said.