Said Trump talking to reporters today about his firing of Rex Tillerson,
the NYT reports.
Mr. Tillerson found out he had been fired before dawn, shortly after his flight returned from a weeklong trip to Africa, said Steve Goldstein, the under secretary of state for public diplomacy. There was no indication during the five-nation visit that Mr. Tillerson’s departure was imminent....
What about Tillerson's calling in sick? Fake?
Mr. Tillerson has been out of favor with Mr. Trump for months but had resisted being pushed out. His distance from Mr. Trump’s inner circle was clear last week when the president accepted an invitation to meet with Mr. Kim, to Mr. Tillerson’s surprise....
His profound disagreements with the president on policy appeared to be his undoing: Mr. Tillerson wanted to remain part of the Paris climate accord; Mr. Trump decided to leave it. Mr. Tillerson supported the continuation of the Iran nuclear deal; Mr. Trump loathed the deal as “an embarrassment to the United States.” And Mr. Tillerson believed in dialogue to resolve the North Korean nuclear crisis, but Mr. Trump repeatedly threatened military options.
Veteran diplomats said they could not remember a time when a president so regularly undermined his secretary of state so brazenly in the midst of a tense situation. Richard N. Haass, the president of the Council on Foreign Relations, who served many Republican presidents, last fall urged Mr. Tillerson to quit....
The turning point for Mr. Tillerson came when NBC News reported that he had called the president a “moron”.... The growing distance between the men was on clear display during Mr. Trump’s trip to Asia in November, when Mr. Tillerson visited the prison that once housed Senator John McCain, a Republican from Arizona who is a frequent critic of the president.
But perhaps the most puzzling part of Mr. Tillerson’s tenure was his poor oversight of the State Department. As a former top business executive, his managerial skills were thought to be his chief asset....
What a dismal finish for this man!
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ARM alleged: "After the tax cuts the deficits will go up, significantly."
First, you are again lying, but in a more clever way by trying to read into the future.
Second, is that Paul Krugman or a crystal ball you are reading?
Tax cuts have historically led to increased economic activity, job growth and wealth creation. The government does not do a good job of managing the people's money. Is anyone with a functional brain surprised?
ARM may have a functional brain, but he is proving to be a serial dissembler. That's what leftists have to do to be happy with their ideological delusions. It worked for Cuba, Venezuela, East Germany and the Soviet Union.
We need Freder, Cookie and ARM in charge of us to make socialism work. If it doesn't work, I go to jail as an enemy of the people, if you disarm me first.
"ARM may have a functional brain..."
I am afraid its just a functional VOX brain, and that is...unfortunate.
Lindsey Graham was trying to be painfully polite to Trump?
Anybody think Chuck actually believes that false thing?
At least Trump wasn't insubordinate to all the immigrant hawks the way he was to Tillerson.
I am very grateful to Rex Tillerson for taking the position when he did, it meant a lot then at the beginning. With the deranged hostilities the alt-Liberals have poured down on this administration, and with Trump being such a very different president, Mr. Tillerson offered the nation a sense of grounding, a comfort.
It is too bad that it did not work out, and it will be especially sad if it cannot be amicable.
I can only be glad he took it on, and he can be proud to have played an early, affirming role in this unconventional administration.
Godspeed, america and the world
It is hard to believe that there exists someone so stupid that they might want to argue that increasing expenditure while decreasing income won't increase deficits. Yet, such people exist, incredibly. One has to assume that they do not use the same ideologically driven nonsense when thinking about their own household budget.
ARM: "It is hard to believe that there exists someone so stupid that they might want to argue that increasing expenditure while decreasing income won't increase deficits."
I suppose enough time has passed that ARM feels comfortable attacking John F. Kennedy.
It's inevitable I suppose since JFK is a Dead White European Male.
Beloved Commenter AReasonableMan said....
“Wouldn't it make more sense to give the money to your children to pay for the vastly increased federal debt that we are bequeathing them?”
A republican is President so the disingenuous jerk arguing in bad faith cares about deficits.
Unexpectedly.
Beloved Commenter AReasonableMan said...
“It is hard to believe that there exists someone so stupid that they might want to argue that increasing expenditure while decreasing income won't increase deficits. “
The problem for the disingenuous assholes is that increasing economic growth always leads to higher revenues.
If Obama hadn’t pissed on the economy and held growth to half the historic normal levels deficits would be drastically lower right now.
But leftists like ARM don’t actually know how math works and either pretend they don’t understand economics or actually don’t.
It also really pisses people like ARM off when little people make more money and have more opportunity.
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