Secretary Of State Rex Tillerson Keeps Low Profile Since Taking Office

[BeckyDem]

February 21, 20174:41 PM ET
Heard on All Things Considered

Rex Tillerson is heading on his second foreign trip as secretary of state later this week. But, as in his visit last week to Germany, Tillerson is expected to try to keep a low profile when he travels to Mexico on Wednesday.

Tillerson has said very little in public since taking office. There has been no State Department briefing since the Trump administration began a month ago.

For two days at last week's G-20 meetings in Bonn, where Tillerson was meeting with his counterparts from the group of 20 leading economies, reporters tried and failed to get the secretary of state to weigh in on some of the key foreign policy issues facing the Trump administration.

"Met a lot of new friends," Tillerson said with a laugh at a photo op.

http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2017/02/21/516480949/secretary-of-state-rex-tillerson-keeps-low-profile-since-taking-office

[TeamPooka]

1. Corrupt idiot is over his head.

[BeckyDem]

2. Indeed and corruption will rule the day.

[old guy]

3. They are trying to keep him away from the events in Washington.

He has no idea how to do his job so he gets to wander around on meaningless junkets with specific orders to keep his mouth shut.

[Phoenix61]

4. His job is to get the oil flowing from Russia.

Everything else is window dressing.

[BeckyDem]

5. Trump World will show us more corruption than his supporters ever bargained for.

[kentuck]

6. An $80 billion dollar deal.

I hear.

[BeckyDem]

7. His entire administration is sick. I can't wait for 2018 and then forward to 2020.