Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is currently updating his LinkedIn profile to include his work at the White House. Heβs spent a good portion of his morning calling friends to see whoβs hiring, and practicing saying the word βfunemployment,β because heβs out. Everyone knows heβs out, including Tillerson. Which is the reason heβs been combing through his Facebook contacts to see with whom he should be taking coffee over the coming weeks because heβs going to have a ton of free time on his hands.
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Tillerson, much like the rest of the appointees in the White House, was a disaster from the start.
Hereβs how CNN categorized his time in his gifted position:
Administration officials have chafed at Tillersonβs resistance to [Donald] Trump policy positions, lawmakers have expressed alarm about his cuts to the State Department, staff there decry the agencyβs dysfunction and senior members of the U.S. national security establishment from both parties warn that he is creating a βnational security emergency,β in the words of former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.
So if rumors coming out of the White House are to be believed, which they are, Tillerson is out and will be replaced by CIA Director Mike Pompeo.
Sen. Tom Cotton, the goofy, Trump-loving Arkansas Republican who would hold the presidentβs nut sack if asked nicely, would most likely be expected to take over the reins at the CIA.
When asked by reporters about Tillersonβs potential dismissal, CNN reports that Trump offered, βHeβs here, Rex is here,β which we all know in Trump-speak means, heβs here today, but I canβt guarantee that heβll be here tomorrow.
White House press secretary Sarah βSuckabeeβ Sanders echoed the presidentβs position. Seriously, she literally repeated the exact phrase, βRex is here.β
She did add, in a statement viewed by CNN, βSecretary Tillerson continues to lead the State Department and the entire Cabinet is focused on completing this incredibly successful first year of President Trumpβs administration.β
I expect the president to break something in the Oval Office because heβs upset that he canβt stop leaks from coming out of the White House, but Tillerson is done. In fact, the only thing prolonging his exit is the fact that the press got wind of it early, and there is one thing the president canβt stand, and thatβs being upstaged.
Letβs not forget that Tillerson once reportedly called Trump a βmoron,β and we all know thatβs all it takes for President Petty to cast you out of the kingdom (Mama Dee voice).
Read more at CNN.
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