Posted on 12/07/2018 12:45:09 PM PST by Beave Meister
President Trump fired back Friday at former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, calling him "dumb as a rock" after the ex-diplomat claimed he always had to remind the president some of his plans would “violate the law.”
In a rare public appearance, Tillerson sat down with former veteran CBS News journalist Bob Schieffer during a fundraiser for the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, according to the Houston Chronicle.
Tillerson blamed his strained relationship with Trump on the fact they did not share a “common value system” and were “obviously starkly different in our styles.”
“When the president would say, ‘Here's what I want to do, and here's how I want to do it,’ and I'd have to say to him, ‘Well, Mr. President, I understand what you want to do, but you can't do it that way. It violates the law, it violates the treaty, you know. He got really frustrated,” Tillerson said. “I think he grew tired of me being the guy every day who told him he can’t do that and let’s talk about what he can do.”
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Laws?
Treaties?
Bammy had a pen and a phone, he didn’t need no stinkin’ Laws and Treaties.
Dumb as a rock. Love it!
Hey, Jackass Tillerson, the State Department is HIS State department...
A prime example of the difference between leadership and simply managing.
Tillerson complains that Trump suggested things that he didn’t realize were illegal. That’s not a problem. The Trump administration hasn’t done anything illegal. Trump is a fountain of ideas and he expresses them. This is all great. No problem.
Did Trump need to characterize him as “Dumb as a rock”? That something else that Trump does. It worked for him in the election.
I never understood how a oil company excutive would make a good Secretary of State. I guess I was right because he didn’t work out.
Yes Trump wanted someone to run the State Department instead of managing it.
Dumb as a rock?
That description seems to fit many of the past, present and future Trump appointees.
So. What that says about Trump is open for discussion.
Wasn’t Tillerson the RINO nimrod of Big Oil Alaska, who had given Sarah Palin headaches in years past?
uhh….Mr. President, that’s not exactly a ringing endorsement of your hiring or vetting processes.
yeah but when Obama did it it was hip and cool cause he was the first black President dont ya know and the commie media ADORED him
That’s my reaction. Pompeo is doing a much better job.
Sounds to me that Trump is a particular type of doer who wants to avoid: PARALASIS BY ANALYSIS. -Tom
You try to find qualified people when you’re an outsider and going against a corrupt government.
Rex, a civil engineer, worked his way up to ceo of ExxonMobil. Not bad for a dummy. Imagine what he could have done if he was smart.
IIRC, it was (Establishment) Condoleezza Rice who recommended Tillerson to Trump.
Said at the time that the SoS should have went to Newt,
Other than Trump, nobody has a stronger sense of strategy than Newt
Rex was enthusiastically backed by the bushies. That should’ve been a big red flashing warning sign not to hire the pos.
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