Tillerson blows up at top White House aide

[Jimbo101]

Politico

The secretary of state, frustrated by negative press coverage and delays in appointing staff, unleashed his anger in front of Reince Priebus, Jared Kushner and others.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s frustrations with the White House have been building for months. Last Friday, they exploded.

The normally laconic Texan unloaded on Johnny DeStefano, the head of the presidential personnel office, for torpedoing proposed nominees to senior State Department posts and for questioning his judgment.

Tillerson also complained that the White House was leaking damaging information about him to the news media, according to a person familiar with the meeting. Above all, he made clear that he did not want DeStefano’s office to “have any role in staffing” and “expressed frustration that anybody would know better” than he about who should work in his department – particularly after the president had promised him autonomy to make his own decisions and hires, according to a senior White House aide familiar with the conversation.

The episode stunned other White House officials gathered in chief of staff Reince Priebus’s office, leaving them silent as Tillerson raised his voice. In the room with Tillerson and DeStefano were Priebus, top aide Jared Kushner and Margaret Peterlin, the Secretary of State’s chief of staff.

[roamer65]

1. I love it.

[Bleacher Creature]

3. Same here.

I'll gladly watch them tear each other to shreds.

[monmouth4]

2. When I first saw him and watched his arrogant self I knew he was a SOB. n/t

[Chemisse]

5. I can't say that I blame him.

He goes out and says semi-reasonable things around the world. And then Mr. Short Fingers completely undercuts him with single stupid tweet.

And who in the White House is leaking bad info about him? It must be a circus dealing with Trump and his minions. Working there must be like living in the middle of a bad joke.

[NYC Liberal]

6. "who in the White House is leaking bad info about him"

Probably "John Miller"

[Chemisse]

8. Haha! That could be the "leaker!" n/t

[sueh]

17. Right on! NYC Liberal, you are too funny!

[Alice11111]

19. WH dismissed his pick for Dep SOS

He has the appearanve of power, not powere
Given what other countries have said, he doesnt even have the appearance of power anymore.
He should resign on principle.

[paleotn]

20. I wouldn't be at all surprised if he walked......

Compared to Rexxon, 45 is some two bit real estate hawker. The CEO of a Fortune 5 company is not use to being treated with way, much less to rank incompetence. But....he signed up for it. He should have known what fucking clowns these people are.

[Alice11111]

23. Yeah, afer his level at Exxon, how can he stand to be

Treated like shit before the whole world & not run his own show

[No Vested Interest]

25. But his wife told him "God's not through with you" and thus Tillerson believes

he's on a mission from God.

[Alice11111]

26. Maybe God has another plan, take down the Brutal Beast!

...grasping at fantasies.

[BootinUp]

4. This tastes like candy. Keep it coming!

[Ilsa]

7. Ah, does REXXON have a sad?

Let their civil war continue!

[Initech]

9. This incompetent bunch of buffoons couldn't lead their way out of a paper bag.

[MontanaMama]

10. Well, Rex...

You knew who these con artists were when you took the job and now you're miffed that it's not all working out the way you thought? Well, it's not working out so hot for the rest of us either. Fuck you. Join the resistance and be a patriot. You will only go down with this stinking ship.

[Corvo Bianco]

30. When I was watching all of Trump's CEO cabinet picks,

I couldn't help but chuckle to myself--don't you know what you're getting into? Trump isn't competent enough to run this scam like a normal CEO. So you sold your reputation for nation-compromising ambitions, fine who hasn't in your line of work!

But I don't think you fully considered that your entire collection of life and business experience mean nothing anymore. The summation of your life is now "one of Trump's chumps".

Continue foaming, Mr. Tillerson.

[dalton99a]

11. Good. Keep doing it.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

12. Uh oh

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[oberliner]

13. This is hardly something to celebrate

It is dangerous for our country to be in this situation right now.

[Chemisse]

22. You are right.

And I am sure some countries are watching carefully to see where the opportunities lie.

We are very, very weak right now.

[paleotn]

24. You are 100% correct.

Damn scary times we live in. It's by the grace of one's personal deity that something really terrible hasn't happened, due to the stupidity currently occupying the White House. It's not like we're the most loved country the world over. And certainly not now.

[SweetieD]

27. Yeah it is more scary than anything. Tillerson runs under the radar but he is just as bad if not

worse than Bannon, Kushner, and maybe Trump himself. He is also the closest to Putin and Russia. It also appears that he is running the State Department nearly independent of the WH because he can.

[oberliner]

29. Also the general sense of incompetence

At the highest levels of government. Especially with respect to international relations, this is not good.

[eleny]

14. The big cheese is angry

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[DefenseLawyer]

15. Rex's only real job is to get the sanctions lifted

After all, that's why Putin appointed him in the first place.

[cheyanne]

28. Yeah, and I'm sure the Trump told him that the job was just a placeholder till the sanctions

were lifted. In his confirmation hearings, he didn't seem upset that he didn't know basic policy. For a Fortune 500 CEO to put his reputation on line for a corrupt administration shows that he didn't even bother to do due diligence about the job.

And now he finds that he can't run his own department, that Trump will undercut him at any time and he is shut out of the inner circle.

Con man falls for the biggest con. As they say: if you don't know who the patsy is, it's you.

[lindysalsagal]

16. There have to be dozens of these weekly.

But people are good at hiding.

[UTUSN]

18. O joy O joy, let the joy keep coming!1

[Snake Plissken]

21. Everyone around Trump acts like a child, the adults seem to be getting tired of it

I can't even imagine working for an asshole like Trump, who is so insecure that he needs staff members in a constant state of panicking in survival mode around him to ensure loyalty.