[anarchist23]

Donald Trump SACKS Rex Tillerson as secretary of state and replaces him with CIA chief Mike Pompeo

PRESIDENT Trump has ousted Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in a huge upheaval to his national security team.

[MistyTiger]

Wow! I'm surprised Tillerson lasted so long under Trump's employ. Trump knows how to kick people out doesn't he?

More fumbling and mayhem will occur after this. Trump is the destroyer.

[Cartertonian]

Dear God! Here we have the likes of BoJo making frequent, far more idiotic gaffe's without so much as an admonition, and yet Tillerson says something which is aligned to most international opinion on the matter but perhaps is slightly tangential to what is coming out of the Oval Office, and the resident Oompa-Loompa sacks him for it?

Bonkers

[mikema63]

God speed rex, you were a terrible secretary of state but it could've been worse, and now it is.

[noemon]

Dear God! Here we have the likes of BoJo making frequent, far more idiotic gaffe's without so much as an admonition, and yet Tillerson says something which is aligned to most international opinion on the matter but perhaps is slightly tangential to what is coming out of the Oval Office, and the resident Oompa-Loompa sacks him for it?

Bonkers

Tillerson like Reince Priebus were part of the "Greek" connection in the White House. Exxon mobil who is drilling in Cyprus was headed by Tillerson before he joined the White House. Only 2 days ago Trump announced he is abandoning the Kurds in Syria which is probably just the start of concessions he was going to do to Erdogan. It seems now that Trump is also abandoning Cyprus to the whims of Erdogan as Tillerson is Cyprus' best chance to drill for energy without being invaded by Turkey.

[Heisenberg]

All things considered, Rexxon wasn't all that bad as Secretary of State. At the very least, he strikes me as a mature adult, which is more than I can say for most of the Trump administration.

[Beren]

Trump says he and Tillerson disagreed on things and he mentioned the Iran deal, whereas they have a "very similar thought process" with Pompeo.

https://a.msn.com/r/2/BBKabtz?m=en-us

Pompeo is an arse-kisser, I believe.

Pompeo long has been mentioned as Tillerson’s most likely replacement. As CIA director, the former Republican lawmaker from Kansas developed a warm relationship with Trump, often delivering the President’s Daily Brief to Trump in person and racing over to the West Wing at a moment’s notice to field the president’s queries on a range of topics.

[The Immortal Goon]

Is Kelley the only adult left in the White House?

[Rich]

This is fantastic news. Tillerson was an anti Russian racist bigot, but a complete cuck when it came to North Korea. Bravo Trump, bravo. It seems Neo Conman Tillerson's last straw was his attack on Russia last night.

[Prosthetic Conscience]

Next? That would be Trump appointing a torturer to head the CIA:

Although her appointment still needs to be confirmed by the Senate, Richard Burr, chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said he looked forward to supporting the nomination.

"I know Gina personally and she has the right skill set, experience, and judgement to lead one of our nation's most critical agencies," he said.

The "black site" in Thailand run by Ms Haspel oversaw the interrogations of al-Qaeda suspects Abu Zubaydah and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri.

Declassified CIA cables revealed Zubaydah was waterboarded 83 times in one month and had his head slammed into walls.

He was also subjected to sleep deprivation and other harsh methods before interrogators decided he had no useful information to disclose, the documents said.
...
Recordings of the interrogation sessions were later destroyed. According to the New York Times, Ms Haspel's name was on the cable that carried the destruction orders.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-43390208

[Beren]

Rex Tillerson, who was a real chairman and CEO of a real company compared to which the Trump Organization is a family run chandlery, clearly didn't fit the Trump administration and couldn't compete with Pompeo's arse-kissery.

[Reichstraten]

White House shake-up: Chief of staff John Kelly may also be on the way out, sources say

National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster Is Expected To Leave Trump Administration

[Potemkin]

chandlery

I approve of this word.

[Stormsmith]

Tillerson of Exxon signed on with Putin's Rosneft to drill for oil in Alaska. These were the sanctions Putin wanted lifting.

[Torus34]

The State Department is the repository of information about our relationships, past and present, with the nations of the world. When one looks at the number of unfilled upper level slots and the number of skilled personnel who have left in the past year, Mr. Rex Tillerson's grasp of the Department's importance and his administrative ability is called into question.

[blackjack21]

PRESIDENT Trump has ousted Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in a huge upheaval to his national security team.

The Secretary of State is not part of the national security team.

The State Department is the repository of information about our relationships, past and present, with the nations of the world. When one looks at the number of unfilled upper level slots and the number of skilled personnel who have left in the past year, Mr. Rex Tillerson's grasp of the Department's importance and his administrative ability is called into question.

He wasn't very effective. However the State Department's embassy system is pretty antiquated.

[Prosthetic Conscience]

The Secretary of State is not part of the national security team.

The National Security Council (NSC) is the President's principal forum for considering national security and foreign policy matters with his senior national security advisors and cabinet officials. Since its inception under President Truman, the Council's function has been to advise and assist the President on national security and foreign policies. The Council also serves as the President's principal arm for coordinating these policies among various government agencies.

The NSC is chaired by the President. Its regular attendees (both statutory and non-statutory) are the Vice President, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of Defense, and the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. ...

https://www.whitehouse.gov/nsc/

[Libertarian353]

Is Kelley the only adult left in the White House?

Are Micks consider white first?

[Libertarian353]

Tillerson was an anti Russian racist bigot

So him wanting to protect his nation from all threats foreign and domestic is racist, when it happens to be Russians(our enemy since 1921?)

I didn't know you care about non-whites?

but a complete cuck when it came to North Korea.

So not wanting a nuclear war that would only accelerate our extinction(western civilization can't feed itself on radiated soil), is akin to having your wife be fucked by Black men?

[QatzelOk]

So him wanting to protect his nation from all threats foreign and domestic is racist, when it happens to be Russians(our enemy since 1921?)

Well, now that oil companies are free to drill virtually anywhere in the oceans off America's coasts, it's hard to see what more Tillerson could have accomplished.

Though to accuse him of "wanting to protect" anything other than his own shareholders is kind of naive in al "duped by Oligarchical PR" way.