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John Kerry criticized for saying Trump has ‘the insecurity of a teenage girl’

Former Secretary of State John Kerry is being criticized for comparing President Donald Trump to a teenage girl during an appearance on HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher."

Kerry visited the late-night talk show Friday to promote his new memoir, “Every Day is Extra.” Shortly after Kerry sat down, however, host Bill Maher brought up a Trump tweet from the day before, in which the president had accused the former secretary of state of having “illegal meetings” with the Iranian government.

"I think I told the truth," Kerry replied. "He's the first president that I know of who spends more time reading his Twitter 'likes' than his briefing books or the Constitution of the United States.