Trump fired back at Tillerson Thursday after the former secretary of state reportedly criticized the president's preparations for a meeting with Vladimir Putin.
White House press secretary Sarah Sanders declined to answer Thursday why President Donald Trump appointed Rex Tillerson as secretary of state despite saying he was “totally ill prepared” for the job.
“Rex Tillerson, a man who is ‘dumb as a rock’ and totally ill prepared and ill equipped to be Secretary of State, made up a story that I was out-prepared by Vladimir Putin at a meeting in Hamburg, Germany. I don’t think Putin would agree. Look how the U.S. is doing!” Trump tweeted. Few former administration members, though, have had negative comments about the president aired as publicly as Tillerson’s this week.
Tillerson, a former ExxonMobil CEO, was replaced as secretary of state by Mike Pompeo, who has fallen keenly in with the president’s agenda.
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