BREAKING: Trump fires Secretary of State Rex Tillerson


Secretary of State Tillerson out amid clashes with Trump, to be replaced by CIA Director Pompeo
Jacob Pramuk | @jacobpramuk
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  • Rex Tillerson is out as secretary of State, ending a tumultuous tenure as America's top diplomat.


Rex Tillerson is out as secretary of State,ending a tumultuous tenure as America's top diplomat that was marked by a series of public disagreements with his boss — President Donald Trump.

Trump plans to appoint CIA Director Mike Pompeo to replace the former Exxon Mobil chief executive. The president picked deputy CIA Director Gina Haspel to run the spy agency.

The Washington Post first reported the news, which the president quickly confirmed in a tweet. Trump thanked Tillerson for his service and said Pompeo will do a "fantastic job."



Since Tillerson took the post in February 2017, mixed messages repeatedly came out of the White House and a State Department with diminishing relevance. The intramural clashes between the president and secretary of State came amid major international crises, including a potential nuclear showdown with North Korea.

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Wow..Trunp didn’t even have the decency to speak with Rex to tell him he was fired. This what You get when you leave a job paying you over. 100 mil a year to work for a moron.
Yep.. I have zero sympathy for him. He went for the power grab and got clowned by a guy he openly admitted is a moron.. So who's the bigger moron between the two?

Meanwhile Drumpf talking tough about how he would run into a school shooting unarmed to face the gunmen but dont have the balls to even face these weak ass cacs and fire them himself. Fucking pussy.
 
Yep.. I have zero sympathy for him. He went for the power grab and got clowned by a guy he openly admitted is a moron.. So who's the bigger moron between the two?

Meanwhile Drumpf talking tough about how he would run into a school shooting unarmed to face the gunmen but dont have the balls to even face these weak ass cacs and fire them himself. Fucking pussy.
There’s a ole Bill Maher joke about who’s the bad guy: the guy who flies plane or the guy who flies drones. I believe he was fired from ABC for that assessment.

Americans can’t seem to find, fight, and actually win against their chosen opponents. American military is the Warriors without the championships.
 
Funny this came right after he finally said some negative shit about Russia
Even funnier that Rex was actually the person who told him from jump that he should be diplomatic and engage NKorea on nuke matters. Drumpf told him fuck no and started tweeting that tough talk. Now he shit cans the guy right after he decides to be diplomatic with NKorea. I wouldnt be surprised if Putin had his hands on that meet up as well.
 
There’s a ole Bill Maher joke about who’s the bad guy: the guy who flies plane or the guy who flies drones. I believe he was fired from ABC for that assessment.

Americans can’t seem to find, fight, and actually win against their chosen opponents. American military is the Warriors without the championships.

"We have been the cowards, lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, [it's] not cowardly." -Bill Maher Sept. 17th, 2001

I think it was more of the timing than anything else, only 6 days after 9-11
 
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