[bagster]

Maybe The Donald needed a wartime consigliere? Tom Hegan wasn’t cutting it?

[Cboldt]

I thought Tillerson was doing a pretty good job, but I certainly trust Trump's decision here. He knows better than anybody the capailities and sentiments of the people affected by this shuffle.

On the surface there are at least minor disconnects of message between Trump and Tillerson. My impression has been that Tillerson did a decent job of explaining or getting around the appearance of difference of opinion. I bet Tillerson was deliberately kept out of the loop on NK discussions - IOW, from Trump's point of view, this is not sudden. This has been deliberated carefully.