That's why Donald Trump drove Rex Tillerson away.

There's never a boring moment at Donald Trump's White House. Trump has foundedly shaken his national security team, just days after announcing a diplomatic venture of historic proportions with North Korea. On Tuesday morning, the president dismissed Secretary of State Rex Tillerson [...] without much ceremony.
Trump has foundedly shaken his national security team, just days after announcing a diplomatic venture of historic proportions with North Korea. On Tuesday morning, the president dismissed Secretary of State Rex Tillerson (who was reportedly taught the dismissal from the Trump post in Twitter), replacing him with the CIA's loyal director, Mike Pompeo. Trump is also promoting Gina Haspel, deputy director of the CIA, putting him in charge of the agency. She will be the first woman to take the reins of the 70-year-old spying agency. Both positions need to be confirmed in the Senate, but the odds are that Pompeii and Haspel can be confirmed (even though Pompeo's hearing may be a bit more difficult).
But the question is: Why does Tillerson leave? What caused this great shake in national security?
You can tell everything in the assessment that the President made to Pompeo: “a lot of energy, very intelligent. We're always at the same wave length. The relationship was very good, and that's what I need from a Secretary of State”.
We're at the same wave length. That's the key. Since the first day, Pompeo's refusal to separate publicly from Trump, his willingness to vouch for his boss's often dubious information and credibility, have made Trump think that Pompeo, who informs Trump daily and meets him more often than the Secretary of State, would be better like his top diplomat?
Pompeo is the guy who fits Trump. He will protect the boss at all costs. This kind of loyalty has always been absolutely critical of Trump.
Tillerson, of course, was not.
ExxonMobil's former Director-General called it President “oron”, after a meeting last summer, and later did not deny it. Since then, he has spent the past six months playing a very small part in the president's egocentric policy process. Tillerson opposed Trump to big and small things. For an example, just hours before it was fired, Tillerson appeared to have distanced himself from the president, blaming Russia for a nervous gas attack in England.
Such things hardly escape Trump's attention. The Iranian Agreement. He thought it was okay. We didn't think the same”, the president said.
But let's be honest. It was actually the “mron”. That was the beginning of the end. If there is one thing that our commander-in-chief “the very stable” cannot bear, is to be offended and stumbled. There was no way Tillerson could last. In some respects, it is surprising that it took so long.
And now America will have another Secretary of State, more loyal.
What will the State Department of Pompeii be like? When facing the Foreign Relations Committee in the Senate, he will surely be questioned by the Democrats and Republicans if he is to remake the department, which has weakened under Tellerson. Whatever he says, however, will not be much of a barrier. The Senate would like Trump to have a full team before launching serious negotiations with North Korea. They may also view Pompeii as someone who can push Trump to step back when talking about commercial warfare.
Meanwhile, Haspel, a respected man at the CIA, will face questions about her knowledge of CIA policies about stopping, questioning and willingness to tell the truth before the president, especially when it comes to Russia. It will oversee America's secret response to Russian interventions in elections, and after all, its knowledge is deeper than Pompeii's. The odds are for Trump to be praised by national security professionals for this election.
Tillerson's departure lessons should be clear to members of the Trump team: Don't cross the bosses! Don't push the boss. He just can't stand it. / The Week World.al












