TIL Desk/World/Washington/ United States President Donald Trump on Friday lambasted his former secretary of state Rex Tillerson, describing him as ‘dumb as a rock’ and ‘lazy as hell’, after the ex-diplomat alleged the president regularly pushed him to take decisions that were ‘illegal’. On the same day, Trump praised Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for doing a great job.
‘Mike Pompeo is doing a great job, I am very proud of him. His predecessor, Rex Tillerson, didn’t have the mental capacity needed,’ Trump said in a tweet. ‘He(Tillerson) was dumb as a rock and I couldn’t get rid of him fast enough. He was lazy as hell. Now it is a whole new ballgame, great spirit at state!’ he said. Trump’s angry tweet on Tillerson came after the former secretary of state, in an interview, was critical of the President.
“I think he grew tired of me being the guy everyday that told him, ‘You can’t do that, and let’s talk about what we can do’,” Tillerson said in his interview. “He acts on his instincts, in some respects it looks like impulsiveness’ But’ it’s not his intent to act on impulse. I think he really is trying to act on his instincts,” he said.
“It’s challenging for me coming from the disciplined, highly process-oriented Exxon Mobil Corporation’ to go to work for a man who is pretty undisciplined,doesn’t like to read, doesn’t read briefing reports, doesn’t like to get into the details of a lot of things. “But rather just kind of says, ‘Look, this is what I believe and you can try to convince me otherwise,’ but most of the time you’re not going to do that,” Tillerson said.
