Trump Has Fired His Secretary Of State Rex Tillerson
It has been announced this morning that President Trump has fired U.S. Secretary Of State Rex Tillerson. He will be replaced by CIA Director Mike Pompeo.
Interestingly, yesterday, Rex Tillerson named Russia as the perpetrator of the nerve agent attack on two individuals recently in London. Donald Trump's White House failed to name Russia as the likely perpetrator of that attack. Hmmmm.
News continues to break on the Tillerson ouster. Has Tillerson been out of step with Trump's attitudes toward Russia?
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Apparently the resignation of Hope Hicks has left Trump without the glue that kept him on a stable course.
The Left hates them, criticizes them until they can use them to press forward with their agenda.
Rex Tillerson is a huge disappointment
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/rex-tillerson-is-a-huge-disappointment/2017/08/07/a9918b8e-7ba5-11e7-9d08-b79f191668ed_story.html?utm_term=.0ace3ffaa122
They hated Rex Tillerson and then they don't talk much about that now. Funny how that works.
They hate him but they bitch because of WHO fired him.
I can't help thinking fake outrage...
If the last year was the "stable course" it's going to be a very bumpy ride from here on out...
is that where the glue came from ?
the mental unstable boy man chile gone Vodoo chile wild...while, losing his faculty's,
asz they all fall right out the open medication cabinet drawer, as his en tire cabinet was a hallucination, many of us never believed any weigh they couldn't lift the wait in the long waiting line , while "snortin whiskey, and drinking cocaine" off the asses of porno shooting stars eclipsed by SS Nova's, with beauty rings, round their rims, tired of the spinning, so all you bitches out there,
Trumppy says stop your grinning n drop your linen
off at the Dry Cleaners, flooded by the Deluge of Delusional Stormy Daniels reigning down all over
Donald Dickhead Trumpp N Stein " Snap your Fingers, Snap your Neck! "
Back to work, damnet !
It would actually be a relief to me if he were found to be huffing something or other, cause for someone to be allegedly sober, his behavior is disturbing, with a big ole DO NOT DISTURB SIGN on it.
Yeah, I know, she took the Crazy glue with her when she left.
Andrea Mitchell of NBC News is reporting that Tillerson put out a series of very strong statements suggesting that Russia was involved in the poisoning of the former Russian spy in Britain, but White House mouthpiece Sarah Sanders went in the opposite direction in her briefing yesterday.
To be fair, since I created this article it has been announced that Tillerson was informed he was being fired prior to his statements on the Russian spy.
Nothing odd about it. He was fired so he spoke out without the usual varnish.
NBC News is now reporting that Tillerson was not informed he was being fired. There seems to be a little confusion there so we will have to wait and see how that aspect shakes out.
He was told last Friday according to MSN.
Has trump put out any other reasons to having fired him yet?
Remember when the head of the FBI who was on his way to speak at an FBI graduation ceremony was fired and learned about it on the radio before he landed.
Tillerson received a call from Kelly telling him that he needed to return to Washington that there was going to be a Tweet about him soon and, he needed to be in Washington before Tweet, he then got back to Washington at about three in the morning and, the Tweet wasn't reported on until that morning. Since Tillerson doesn't Tweet or, use Twitter he didn't learn what the Tweet said until Trump called him at noon yesterday.
Everyone knows the Russians were responsible for that. Heck, the poison was Russian military grade from Russia.
But it's not ok to say it, not if you want to keep your White House job that is
Donald Trump only fires the best people.
Who will be the next person shown to the door by this KKKlown Kommander?
Tillerson's deputy, Trumps aide, and, I think there were at least three more fired yesterday as well.
Now that all those Russian oil deals are inked, time to return to the private sector.
Yep, and, here's the list of people Trump has fired since getting elected.
It seems a little bigger than Obama's.
Either he thinks he's still on The Apprentice or he really does think he was elected King of the U.S. and proclaimed Ruler of the free World. Whatever, it seems to be getting worse.
That's 2 this week.....also President Donald Trump’s personal assistant, John McEntee, was escorted out of the White House on Monday, two senior administration officials said. The cause of the firing was an unspecified security issue, said a third White House official with knowledge of the situation.
And deporables see nothing wrong with the way this WH admin functions....sad, really sad.
This isn't a presidency, this is a farce and it's sad that this is the new normal for the President of the United States.
So, trump fires him over "security Issues" and then promotes him? Yeah, that makes perfect sense to me coming from trump.
There's that blind spot again obscured from the Left's vision.
If he had not been fired and the Left found out about this investigation, they would be all over it for not firing him, just like the were over John Kelly not firing Rob Porter. Either way, the Left would have used it against Trump.
Actually we've found it expedient to just go ahead and assume that anybody Trump hires is a criminal.
If he had not been fired and the Left found out about this investigation, they would be all over it for not firing him, just like the were over John Kelly not firing Rob Porter. Either way, the Left would have used it against Trump.
I guess the part about him being fired, and then hired on the spot to work for Trump's 2020 campaign didn't sink in for you.
LOL Yeah, trump's on a real roll, Lady.
He fires the very best people.
Maybe he will celebrate with 3 scoops of ice cream and an extra large slice of chocolate cake.
The most beautiful piece of chocolate cake you've ever seen.
More Collusion!
Putting a Russian Hawk in charge of State! Just what Putin wants.
Tillerson fired. Well, good for him.
It is too bad he's loaded with OIL buckaroos and is probably not interested in a revealing book deal.
I have to admit that I (and by no means only I) misread Rex. He had all the indicators of being another Putin puppet in this completely bent administration but came out bluntly with the rest of our intel heads in calling out past and present Russian sabotage of our elections. That's the main reason Shitbag's getting rid of him. He actually told the truth and his patriotism trumped politics. Still, his biggest problem was the total lack of experience and that's a job that can't be learned as an internship. And in his true cowardly fashion, Shitbag didn't fire him in person. What a chickenshit. He rightly ragged some Republiscum for being afraid of the NRA and then completely pussed out after the NRA got a private meeting with him.
The NRA grabbed Trumpp
Trumppy style. Who was it Toomey "what, are you afraid of the NRA?"
Trumppy is mighty afraid of one little mind fck , Putin him in place, Putin !
Can't wait till that Stormy asz Jack Daniels Sweating to the moldy oldy Video cums out, cuz
eye be leave it should be REQUIRED watching for ALL, especially those that still have the ignorance to still defend this offence, in OUR DAMN WHITE HOUSE !
Get the FCK OUT ALREADY ! He doesn't deserve to be Obama's shoe shiney boy
He is an utter DISGRACE to the inhumane human race, that he is causing US All to LOSE!
WAKE the FRICK up AMERICA !
I as well was highly suspicious of Tillerson and it seems at least he was above the level of the trump swamp, I can't fault someone for trying to do right.
I'll never be able to forgive him for all of the million$ he spent denying AGW and climate science.
He probably got wind of a Putin double cross involving big oil money, whereby Tillerson would find himself mysteriously doused in nerve agent.
You know the reason Putin had him appointed, was all about the $ , oil, and sanctions, so in other words, the $.
He didn't play well, with others though. Never liked him, and still wouldn't trust him, but if Trumpp had to fire him, he has some Patriotism in him.
I did, too. I think there was a possibility in the beginning that he was worried about the affect that Russian sanctions were having on Exxon Mobil in regard to the Sakhalin off-shore drilling sites. Although he had already stepped down as CEO, his heart was still there...along with $2,000,000 in EM stock.
If I had to guess, I bet he is freaking relieved to be done with it. I don't think he had any idea that Trump was such a ridiculous caricature of a person. The biggest difference between Tillerson and Trump is that he became successful the old-fashioned way; he earned it. Trump was handed his wealth on a silver platter.
In any event, this is going to be one of Trump's biggest regrets later down the road. This almost as bad as firing Mueller would have been. In a White House full of idiots and ding-a-lings, Rex Tillerson turned out to be one of the good guys.
I said from day one that Tillerson was a poor choice due to a complete lack of experience.
I let PH balance...
my hair as well, so as it has nice bounce and shine, like on the illuminated Dark Side of the Moon, where Trumpp and eye never see eye to eye on n e thing utter than the breast bitches to grab by the bodacious bosom, always seem to be prostitutes and porn stars, and sometimes even prostitute porn stars who make you see stars when they bang ahead to louder music, "lullabies to paralyze" seems to symbolize, all the damn lies, me N Trumppy wish to lay
out there, like potato
chips, on the shoulders of society, tied to notoriety , buy a bow, shot from an arrow, pointing the right way, is wrong...
This makes it three this week -
The purge at the State Department isn’t stopping with Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson. Stephen Goldstein, the undersecretary of state for public diplomacy, was fired after putting out a statement apparently contradicting the White House’s version of why Mr. Tillerson was fired.
Wouldn't it be wonderful if when Trump got so damn confused as to who to believe as he says so many different things simultaneously (I've got to get him to learn me that one) and needs to fire those who contradict him, wound up being like "Joshua" in War Games, and decided the only winning move, was not to play....
and Trump just went the FRCK AWAY
I have heard multiple conflicting stories as to when Tillerson was fired. Some say it was last Friday, some say Tillerson only heard the news this morning.
Chickenshit Trump didn't have the nerve or decency to even call him up to tell him much less do it face to face.
He has been in Africa, and returned this morning a few hours before Trump's tweet, which coincidentally, is how he found out he was fired. Or it's possible I'm making this up. I'll let you be the judge (while I search for the article I read and hope like crazy it wasn't the National Inquirer or an equally shitty publication).
And here you go, straight from the man himself.
I've been listening to this crap all day and apparently either Mattis or Kelly, or both tried their best to get him to step aside on Friday.
Tillerson refused, apparently repeating what he has reportedly told POTUS before
'If you're going to fire me, do it to my face'.
or to Kelly,
"If he wants me gone, he'll (have to) fire me"
Unlike in his stint on a "reality" show, Herr Drumpf doesn't actually have the balls to fire anyone in person.
Rightwingers think they've caught us liberals being suddenly "in love" with Rex when the truth is we are no such thing. Let me state my view of him more clearly: he was a lousy choice for SoS and he was a bad one; didn't know what he was doing although somewhat to his credit he knew he didn't know (and he did try, I guess); he's leaving the DoS in shambles.* But over time he also showed a few signs of decency. I believe he was truly disgusted by Shitbag's grotesque speech to the Boy Scouts. He also gets credit for realizing pretty early into the Shitbag's first year that he was, indeed, a "fucking moron" (never denied calling him that by the way). So I raised my initial grade for him from an F to a C- (the "gentleman's C") out of a sense of pity, mostly.
*of course it didn't help that Shitbag made his life a waking nightmare
Well said, my thoughts as well.
This should come as no surprise-- there's been a lot of tension between Trump and Tillerson for some time: 'Tensions escalate after Tillerson calls Trump 'moron'
So why did Trump wait so long to fire him?
Based on past behaviour, its obvious Trump waits for the opportune time to fire people-- or to otherwise create attention-getting headlines. (In this case the actual timing was obviously due to Trump's desire to distract from a possible major loss i n the special election in Pennsylvania.
The actual timing of the Tillerson firing was obviously due to Trump's desire to distract from a possible major loss in the special election in Pennsylvania:
Election Results for Pennsylvania special election on March 13, 2018
Conor Lamb, Rick Saccone in tight race Wednesday night
Democrats, looking to take back the majority in Congress next year, are hoping a high-profile win in Pennsylvania's 18th District will give them a boost in the heart of Trump country. Republicans are hoping to avoid an embarrassing defeat in a district that has voted Republican since 2002. (LINK)
And the bad weather - Storm Daniels is a brewin'.