Scarcely an hour ago, President Trump took to Twitter to inform the world to thank Rex Tillerson for his service as Secretary of State, but that job now belongs to CIA Director Mike Pompeo. In turn, Trump has also appointed Gina Haspel to succeed Pompeo at the CIA.
Honestly, I am surprised Tillerson lasted as long as he did. I thought Tillerson was on borrowed time when he did not deny calling Trump "a moron" last October. To me, the more interesting question was when Tillerson arrived at that conclusion. Whatever the answer to that question, I thought he would be gone by the end of the year. In December, Trump tweeted that any suggestion he would fire Tillerson was "FAKE NEWS". This "FAKE NEWS" would come to pass less than two and a half months later.
Trump reportedly asked Tillerson to step aside last Friday. This was right after the White House announced direct talks between Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un only hours after Tillerson said the U.S. was "a long way from" such talks. Could it be that Trump decided to talk to Kim just to give a middle finger to Tillerson?
But given that Tillerson publicly criticized Russia only yesterday for the nerve gas attack against a Russian double agent and his daughter last week in the U.K. it is not unreasonable to speculate this may have prompted his abrupt dismissal.
It's a lousy way to conduct foreign policy. But I cannot wait for Tillerson's tell all book.
The question now is who will be next to resign or be fired by the Trump Administration?
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