Trump Reportedly Fed Up With Rex Tillerson: ‘Rex Just Doesn’t Get It’ President Donald Trump’s patience with Rex Tillerson, his secretary of state, is wearing thin according to a new report from Axios. Jonathan Swan reports that the president “has been growing increasingly frustrated with his Secretary of State,” with Axios’s Mike Allen adding that U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley is a possible replacement.... http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-reportedly-fed-up-with-rex-tillerson-‘rex-just-doesn’t-get-it’/ar-AAqPOCh?li=BBnb7Kz
Tillerson's comments defy anything we've seen ByAaron David Millerand Richard Sokolsky Updated 12:18 PM ET, Mon August 28, 2017 Tillerson: President Trump speaks for himself00:51 Story highlights Aaron Miller and Richard Sokolsky: Even in Trumpland, new comments by Secretary of State Tillerson are breathtaking in their implications In decades of working for Secretaries of State, we've never heard the nation's top diplomat so distance himself from his boss, they write (CNN)Diplomacy is by nature a get-along business; and that applies in spades to a relationship between a president and his secretary of state. If there's any arguing to be done or daylight demonstrated, it takes place in private -- behind closed doors. In the Trump administration, however, tradition and convention have given way to a new normal where not only the Secretary of State adopts positions on issues from Qatar to North Korea that differ from those of the President, but other Cabinet officials often do so as well. Even in Trumpland, though, this weekend's comments by Secretary of State Rex Tillerson are breathtaking in their implications. In so many words, the nation's top diplomat, occupying the most prestigious post in the Trump administration,pointedly chose not to defend the "values" of the President of the United States in a stunning interview with Chris Wallace on "Fox News Sunday." Tillerson: I don't believe anyone doubts the American people's values or the commitment of the American government or the government's agencies to advancing those values and defending those values. ... http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/28/opinions/tillerson-trump-values-miller-sokolsky-opinion/index.html