Rex In Peace
Donald Trump has fired Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and is nominating CIA director Mike Pompeo to replace him.
The Washington Post was the first to report the news.
Tillerson has often found himself publicly at odds with Trump when it came to major issues like North Korea, the decision to move America’s embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, and the Paris climate agreement. According to the Post, Trump asked him to step aside on Friday.
In October of last year it was reported that Tillerson called Trump a “fucking moron” in a meeting. Tillerson then had to publicly grovel and affirm that Trump was indeed “smart,” but the sense that his time was coming to an end still hung in the air—so much so that Trump had to publicly refute it. Here is a fun tweet from just last December: