How many Trump appointees are there in the State Department in Senate confirmed positions? Is State still being run by a sea of Actings?
No way. Tillerson being left on the sideline during the North Korea announcement, Tillerson publicly at odds with Trump on a number of fronts and just yesterday Tillerson coming out strong on the nerve attack tells me all I need to know about this "split".
According to the Washington Compost, Tillerson was informed of the um... personnel change on Friday. That might explain his being “suddenly struck with all illness” during his African your.
Tillerson was a bit too quick to publicly disagree with Trump.
Personnel management via Twitter is not good. Tillerson should have announced his own departure. Maybe this is an amicable separation; time will tell ... but graceless dismissals of high ranking members of the team have considerable blowback potential.
How many Trump appointees are there in the State Department in Senate confirmed positions? Is State still being run by a sea of Actings?
POTUS gave him a chance. Now we know what the “Tillerson is sick” news was about last week. If anybody is being “graceless” here it is Tillerson.