{"id":37294,"date":"2018-03-13T09:20:48","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T16:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=37294"},"modified":"2018-03-13T10:25:52","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T17:25:52","slug":"fake-news-thats-what-trump-called-media-reports-that-tillerson-would-be-fired-um-ok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=37294","title":{"rendered":"FAKE NEWS! That&#8217;s What Trump Called Media Reports that Tillerson Would Be Fired  &#8211; Um, OK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another one bites the dust: On Tuesday morning it was announced that Donald Trump had fired his Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson. This move came after months of awkward conflicts between the President and his top diplomat. It was not an unexpected development, but most White House watchers probably thought it would come later, after the firing of H.R. McMaster, John Kelly, or Jeff Sessions.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Campaign-2016\/trump-putin.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump Vladimir Putin\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29918\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewsCorpse\/posts\/2072183229463128\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Advs\/fb-share-tn.jpg\" width=\"274\" height=\"20\" class=\"aligncenter\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the record, Trump has previously denied all reports that he was even considering terminating Tillerson. In fact, he called it <em>&#8220;fake news.&#8221;<\/em> That was just three months ago:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The media has been speculating that I fired Rex Tillerson or that he would be leaving soon &#8211; FAKE NEWS! He\u2019s not leaving and while we disagree on certain subjects, (I call the final shots) we work well together and America is highly respected again!<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FrqiPLFJ1E\">https:\/\/t.co\/FrqiPLFJ1E<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/936688444046266368?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 1, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Apparently they work so well together that he had to go. Maybe Stormy &#8211; I mean Melania &#8211; was getting jealous. So this was tweeted on Tuesday:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Mike Pompeo, Director of the CIA, will become our new Secretary of State. He will do a fantastic job! Thank you to Rex Tillerson for his service! Gina Haspel will become the new Director of the CIA, and the first woman so chosen. Congratulations to all!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/973540316656623616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 13, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This is rather startling timing for such a major personnel change. Trump recently announced that he would be meeting with North Korea&#8217;s Kim Jong Un by May. Now the United States will be breaking in a new Secretary of State and still has no ambassador to South Korea. There are also significant issues pending with Iran, Israel, China, Russia, and the U.K. But not to worry. As <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thetwo-way\/2017\/11\/03\/561797675\/im-the-only-one-that-matters-trump-says-of-state-dept-job-vacancies\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trump said in November<\/a><\/strong> regarding his dangerously understaffed State Department <em>&#8220;I&#8217;m the only one that matters.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Rest assured that whatever you hear from the administration about Tillerson&#8217;s departure will be a lie. It is no coincidence that he was jettisoned the day after he forcefully <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2018\/03\/12\/tillerson-russia-nerve-gas-attack-457845\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">charged that Russia was responsible<\/a><\/strong> for the nerve agent attack on a former Russian spy in England. Trump was not about to allow any criticism of his BFF, Vladimir Putin. When given the opportunity on Monday to hold Russia accountable, the White House balked, leaving our U.K. allies in the lurch.<\/p>\n<p>Let this be a lesson to anyone serving this president. If you say anything unkind about Putin, you&#8217;re out of a job. It&#8217;s almost worse than saying something unkind about Trump himself. Actually, it is worse. Tillerson <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/10\/04\/politics\/tillerson-trump-moron\/index.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">called Trump a moron<\/a><\/strong> last year and didn&#8217;t get fired. Putin is apparently the third rail in the Trump White House.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00QSSMOES\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B00QSSMOES&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=newscorpsecom-20&#038;linkId=TLI6JC2OYE22MUTS\" target=\"_blank\">Fox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><br \/>\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another one bites the dust: On Tuesday morning it was announced that Donald Trump had fired his Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson. This move came after months of awkward conflicts between the President and his top diplomat. It was not an unexpected development, but most White House watchers probably thought it would come later, after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,1200],"tags":[554,1255,1072],"class_list":["post-37294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-politics","tag-donald-trump","tag-rex-tillerson","tag-vladimir-putin"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-putin.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-9Hw","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":35863,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=35863","url_meta":{"origin":37294,"position":0},"title":"Moron Trump Turns Out to Be a Chicken, Backs Out of IQ Challenge With Sec. 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