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President Trump runs it like a successful business should. Perform according to my vision, which means America first, or you are gone.
I have never seen this before.
Semms Tillerson decided he knew better what America’s policy with Iran should be - just like he decide he knew better what the Boy Scouts’ policy on homosexuality should be.
Which explains why Trump fired him unceremoniously on Twitter.
Actually Tillerson had an almost impossible job. I don’t envision any deal that Trump, EU and Iran would all agree to.
Tillerson should have known that and defaulted to Trump’s other position - scrap the deal. A deal without verification is no deal. Better no deal than a bad deal that allows Iran to build nukes.
But how do we get our money back?
If that’s the case then AMF!
This is the kind of situation that develops when the swamp is allowed to operate for ITSELF rather than for the good of the people of America and the country in general. Getting rid of Tillerson shows what happens when we have a REAL American president work FOR the country.
Keep draining the swamp!!!!
Such a rouge bid would have gotten him executed four hundred years ago, and charged with treason two hundred years ago.
Trump must have been irate if Tillerson was fired in the manner that has been publicized.
And Trump firing him was out in the open, whereas Tillerson’s actions were a clandestine betrayal of monumental repercussions. Which is the worse behavior? Why does Tillerson deserve respect, when he has been most disrespectful.
Tillerson got swept up in the “Trump is stupid” delusion.
Tillerson’s mistake was to essentially WILLINGLY adopt the agendas presented to him by the Deep State globalists which make up the great bulk of State Department bureaucrats. He did that even where the Deep State agendas were hostile to the vision of President Trump. Tillerson wasted a year of his life and he will not be missed.
President Trump should have sent Tillerson to Iran for a meeting with the Iranian wackos, and fired him while he was in that meeting.
That would send a message.
Tillerson was a successful executive himself who has forgotten what it is to work for someone else and to promote and implement their policies and decisions.
In his days as a chief exec he would have unceremoniously canned anyone who did to him what he did to Trump so why would anyone expect something different from Trump?
Every decision like this that Trump makes is not completely ruled by political calculus. This is what has been lacking in presidents for a long time.
“Tillerson was an establishment figure, like Gary Cohn, and the president seems after a year to be tiring of them,” said one source with knowledge of the matter.
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But according to the article, the establishment didn’t like him either. I guess Tillerson was too used to being a CEO and getting his own way.
One story making the rounds is that when the Trump team was discussing the decision to have the President offer to meet directly with Kim someone asked whether Tillerson should be brought into the loop. ‘Why bother’ said Trump, he’ll just disagree with the plan like he always does.
See ya!
If true, firing Tillerson was a good call. Besides the Iran deal being bad for America, it’s the President’s prerogative to set national policy. The Secretary of State merely implements the President’s policy, perhaps offering suggestions for change, but then following orders or resigning.
This is what Reagan should have done with Caspar Weinberger after the latter belayed RR’s order to bomb Hizbollah after the Marine barracks bombing in Beirut.
Truman had the same problem with George Marshal.
Trump brought in Tillerson to make the Bushies feel better. He is a globalist by his nature. Being a BIG oil guy will do that to you.
One year in, Trump realizes that he doesn’t need to placate the RINOs. He is going to get grief from them no matter who he has in there.
Rex was a dead man walking for the past six months.
