Trump Will Fire Rex Tillerson Very Soon—His Ego Demands It
Like oil and water
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Secretary of State Rex Tillerson—Sexy Rexy, to use the term he is known by inside the Paste Office, by which I mean me and me alone—will be gone in two weeks. I know it. All our editors know it. Now you know it. Soon the American people will know it.
According to The Week, the Secretary will be kicking around the empire for some time to come. He denied he would even consider leaving this post:
On Wednesday, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson brushed off reports that he was close to stepping down over the summer, frustrated over President Trump’s fast and furious Twitter fingers and insufficient staffing, and one U.S. official believes he knows why Tillerson didn’t resign, despite his annoyance.
http://theweek.com/speedreads/728978/report-tillerson-mnuchin-mattis-have-suicide-pact-where-resigns-all
Tillerson has reportedly been frustrated, and allegedly called his Commander-in-Chief a “moron” at a Pentagon meeting on July 20. He has also been thwarted (they say) on policy matters involving Iran and our friends in Qatar. His aides are unhappy: will their guy go?
All signs points to an ecstatic Yes.
Two weeks. At most.
Consider the problems of Donald Trump, the world’s most insecure man. A tarp of shame is unrolling in the soul of this orange President. My own guy—called me stupid—everybody’s laughing at me!
Friends, I wish, dearly, that I could paint you a picture of Trump that showed him as man of depth, of thought … but you and I both know that’s not him. There are no conflicting currents of loyalty and fear, nothing in him a psychological novelist could use. He really is that planarian. He follows certain mathematical dictates, and this makes him as predictable as a comet.
In a strange way, Trump proves Lord Acton wrong. Acton said power corrupts. To avoid being poisoned by office, you would have to be a total sinner or an utter saint. The same qualities which we usually term as virtues: courage, a sense of imagination, intelligence, discipline—could be turned into vices by power.
Because Trump has no virtues, because he is a speaking stone with narcissistic personality disorder, power has hardly altered him a hair: he’s as resolutely corrupt as ever. His need for praise and for the love of the great has not wavered since he took the oath.
Tillerson is the worst of both worlds for Donald: better at being CEO, and better at governing than Trump. Don’t get me wrong: Rex is not a quality gent. He’s economic royalist of the first order, a plunderer and a criminal member of the one percent. God knows how much damage he’s done to the world in pursuit of avarice. He violated sanctions, and misled his shareholders about climate change. Rex Tillerson is what’s wrong with this country.