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And poorly, I think. Tillerson might well be “lazy”, and “dumb as a rock”. But Trump is the guy who hired him in the first place. And Trump was not aware of these serious flaws?
A better Trump response - regardless of what Tillerson said - would have something along the lines of “The guy underperformed, hugely. So I had to let him go.”
That's not good enough. People need to know they're going to be humiliated if they attack Trump.