Over the summer, America was in the strange position of having a Secretary State who was missing in action. For days, questions about Tillerson’s location or activities were deflected as it appeared he had taken his oil wells and gone home. As it turns out, Tillerson didn’t just stomp his foot and leave without saying a few choice words.
Just days earlier, Tillerson had openly disparaged the president, referring to him as a “moron,” after a July 20 meeting at the Pentagon with members of Trump’s national security team and Cabinet officials, according to three officials familiar with the incident.
The most obvious point of contention at the time was Trump’s public dressing down of Attorney General Jefferson Sessions for the crime of recusing himself from the Russia investigation. But it appears the biggest reason Tillerson blew up at Trump was actually the speech Donald Trump delivered to the Boy Scouts. As a former leader of the Scouts, Tillerson was disgusted by Trump speech—a speech in which Trump told the scouts heartwarming stories of a millionaire and his sex yacht, called the nation’s capital a “cesspool,” bragged about the size of the crowd, started the War on Christmas in July, and complained about the lack of personal loyalty among his staff. It was a speech so awful that the Boy Scouts issued a statement distancing itself from Trump’s words.
But it was far from the only point of contention. From Qatar to North Korea, Tillerson has found himself crossed up by Trump’s seeming inability to conduct a reasonable foreign policy.
Meanwhile, as Tillerson fumes over Trump, the one consistent policy between them has been the utter destruction of the State Department.
from Daily Kos http://ift.tt/2kmNKNu
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