Trump Reportedly Fed Up With Rex Tillerson: 'Rex Just Doesn't Get It'

[DonViejo]

Source: Mediaite




by Aidan McLaughlin | 8:05 am, August 28th, 2017

President Donald Trump’s patience with Rex Tillerson, his secretary of state, is wearing thin according to a new report from Axios.

Jonathan Swan reports that the president “has been growing increasingly frustrated with his Secretary of State,” with Axios’s Mike Allen adding that U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley is a possible replacement.

One source told Swan that after Trump returned from a recent meeting on Afghanistan, the president said “Rex just doesn’t get it, he’s totally establishment in his thinking.”

“We’ve been hearing for weeks, from sources who’ve spoken to the president, that Trump is getting more and more fed up with Tillerson, who has still yet to staff his agency,” Swan reports.



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[JI7]

1. Haley is an idiot

[Bleacher Creature]

27. Yep, and she also was a pretty vocal "never Trumper."

It's funny how she suddenly came around to Trump as soon as he offered her a job,

[Bengus81]

2. I predicted to my wife he'd be gone by the end of 2017.........

Might still happen. I also predicted that Spicy would be gone by the end of 2017,beat me by months on that one!!

[PJMcK]

9. If only Trump would be gone by the end of the year... (n/t)

[George II]

3. I'm sorry to hear that. Although I don't agree with him philosophically, he seems....

...to be the most level headed of all of them.

Maybe trump should look at himself to see who "just doesn't get it"?

[rpannier]

4. after him and mattis

It's the rejects from House of 1000 Corpses

[Hortensis]

18. I'd say after Mattis. Tillerson's severe lack of competence

is widely recognized by experts, and we still don't know his agenda, only that it is very different from the policies that maintained 70 years of peace after two world wars. Note that Exxon's position under T on the indirect effects of its operations in a region, even regime change, genocide, arrests and tortures, whatever, is that they are not its concern.

Sad that a mere lack of racist craziness can make an appointee seem desirable, but that doesn't mean he is a desirable appointee. Mattis and McMaster, very respected for their competence, reportedly want to work with Tillerson, but he is not "one of them."

[DetlefK]

5. Didn't Rex Tillerson diss Trump after Charlottesville?

IIRC, Tillerson was asked for a comment about Trump's Charlottesville "both-sides-do-it"-speech and Tillerson said something to the effect of:
"The State Department speaks for the US. The President speaks for himself."

[Blue_Tires]

6. Translated headline:

"Trump greases the skids before firing another compromising link to the KremlinGate probe"

[Paladin]

7. Tillerson needs to jettison trump, ASAP.

His departure will speed up trump's end. Can't happen soon enough to suit me.

[RKP5637]

11. Agree. Trump is toxic! n/t

[Scarsdale]

8. Tillerson might be

leaving the staffing of the agency for the NEXT person who takes his job? Remember McConnell and his "The NEXT president will fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court"? Well, Tillerson might have already had bellyful of tRump and his miscreants, so is looking for a way out. They said that Jarrod constantly looks over Tillerson's shoulder. So, after Jarrod brokers a peace deal in the ME, makes the water in Houston recede, then he will take over Tillerson's job.

[alcibiades_mystery]

12. Who is "Jarrod?"

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

20. Brother of Nimrod. nt

[Scarsdale]

23. Mis spelled

Jared Kushner, married to tRump's daughter/wife Ivanka.

[Sgent]

28. Everything I've seen

says Trump's team and Tillerson can't agree on who to staff it. Every nominee Tillerson has sent to the WH has gotten shot down.

[FM451]

10. Another One Bites the Dust!

Warming Up this classic from Queen. Too Soon?




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[alcibiades_mystery]

13. Tillerson wanted to quit a month ago and prob told Trump's people he won't make it a year

So, Trump has to find a way to make it look like it was his idea.

The State Department is, of course, completely falling apart, since Tillerson has no idea what he's doing and the Trump admin hates State more than just about anything. Haley will likely be slightly more competent at State - having actual experience in government administration and not being a tired old semi-retiree, a la Rex. Of course, competence in Trumpland means being able to dismantle the agency and completely politicize it in a fascist manner, so, grain of salt.

[Cosmocat]

17. There were articles a few months in

that explained what was going on with the State Department.

It was Bannon led effort to completely remake it, they literally tore up the inside of the building and redid the layout. As you noted, they purposefully gutted it (likely as part of their deal with Russia), and I think they tied Tillerson's hands some in terms of staffing, but he was full on board with everything they did to wall out the experienced hands in the department.

Tillerson is big time Russia dirty. He isn't personally incompetent, and outside of the Russia shit seems to have the level headedness for the job. BUT, as you noted, just isn't a government guy.

Haley is semi competent/sane by Republican standards. and has the nice balance of looks and deference to him that seems to keep her in good graces with the groper in chief.

She is just going through the motions for her own political ambitions ... A much less bombastic, more level headed and less trailer trashy Palin.

[not fooled]

30. Yep

re Haley. The pukes are trying to prop her up to make her seem like presidential material. She's just another craven opportunist, kissing dump ass in order to further her political ambitions. May it bite her in the ass big-time.

[NCjack]

14. Rex, be aware that "the worst boss ever" is unhappy with you; start

your search now for new job. And, Trump still hasn't found and tossed out the person responsible for log jammin' his Administration. I think it's Redneck Sarah. Toss her and your problems are over.

[FakeNoose]

16. He'll go back into retirement

...he doesn't need another job, didn't need this one either!

He was doing Trump a "favor" and look how that turned out.

[Javaman]

15. revolving door administration nt

[LakeArenal]

19. Oh Tilllerson "gets it"

We all "get it"....

We just didn't align ourselves with this total disaster of a President.

[dalton99a]

21. Haley is salivating at the prospect

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

22. Drumpf just wants yes men

Though I disagree a lot with Tillerson he's not one of those.

[xor]

32. This actually surprises me. I figured he would have fallen right in line with Trump on everything

[Kaleva]

24. Tillerson has been trying to staff his agency but people he picks dont pass the purity test.

[Turbineguy]

25. Tillerson

can run circles around Trump.

[Thomas Hurt]

26. Rexxon did not deliver on the lifting of sanctions, of course Trump doesn't think he gets it.

[Oneironaut]

29. Is there anyone Trump doesn't get tired of and fire?

That administration must be a den of vipers, full of back-stabbing and sabotaging. It all starts at the top.

[xor]

31. There are going to be so many interesting books written over the next decade.

[dflprincess]

33. Won't Putey-Poo be unhappy if his pal Rex is fired?

It appears Donnie-Johnnie is the one who doesn't get it. (Not that that surprises anyone here.)