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groundloop

(11,519 posts)
Fri Dec 7, 2018, 01:20 PM Dec 2018

Rex Tillerson reflects on firing, working for "undisciplined" Trump

Source: CBS News

HOUSTON -- Former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is speaking publicly about what led to his firing in March by President Trump, who Tillerson described as "pretty undisciplined."

"I think part of it was obviously we are starkly different in our styles. We did not have a common value system," Tillerson told CBS News political contributor Bob Schieffer on Thursday. "When the president would say, 'Here's what I want to do and here's how I want to do it,' I'd have to say to him, 'Mr. President, I understand what you want to do, but you can't do it that way. It violates the law. It violates a treaty.' You know, he got really frustrated."

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"I think he grew tired of me being the guy every day that told him, 'You can't do that, and let's talk about what we can do,'" Tillerson said.


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"It's challenging for me coming from the disciplined, highly process-oriented ExxonMobil 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.

Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rex-tillerson-on-trump-his-firing-we-did-not-have-a-common-value-system/

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Initech

(100,076 posts)
1. "One day you're the president of a $100 billion company..."
Fri Dec 7, 2018, 01:25 PM
Dec 2018

"...And the next you're fired by a guy who used to sell steaks in the mail!"

Dave Starsky

(5,914 posts)
2. Through The Sharper Image, no less.
Fri Dec 7, 2018, 01:40 PM
Dec 2018

A store mostly associated with back massagers and non-fogging shower shaving mirrors.

How could a business model like that ever fail?

groundloop

(11,519 posts)
4. HAH!!!! - I never realized Tiny was involved in that. What a 'great' businessman
Fri Dec 7, 2018, 01:52 PM
Dec 2018

Hell, anything he gets near turns to shit. I can't for the life of me understand why anyone would do business with him or even so much as listen to what he has to say after all the bankruptcies he's been through.

AllyCat

(16,187 posts)
3. I had no idea Tillerson had those kind of morals.
Fri Dec 7, 2018, 01:52 PM
Dec 2018

Amazing how someone like him cannot square his morals with Tre45on. That tells you how bad it is in the Oval Office.

onetexan

(13,041 posts)
6. Tillerson said he was ready to retire when God gave him a sign to take the position DOTUS offered
Fri Dec 7, 2018, 01:57 PM
Dec 2018

would you trust anyone who said God told me to do this?

ffr

(22,670 posts)
8. Tillerson was in Houston on Thursday. What he said makes me believe that Mike Pence was fully
Fri Dec 7, 2018, 02:19 PM
Dec 2018

in charge of tRump's transition team, which included Mike Flynn's son. Trump and Flynn. Two peas in a pod. One with the other's back.

When asked about his federal service, Tillerson told the crowd Thursday that he had never actually met Trump until he was invited by Vice President Mike Pence to a meeting that ended with him being asked to become secretary of state. - Houston Chronicle

Grins

(7,217 posts)
10. "We did not have a common value system." - Tillerson
Fri Dec 7, 2018, 02:26 PM
Dec 2018
Bwahahahhahahahahahaha!!!

Not only no "system", no "values" either, you dolt.

Javaman

(62,530 posts)
11. what sort of pejorative will the orange asshole tweet about tillerson?
Fri Dec 7, 2018, 02:56 PM
Dec 2018

you know it's going to happen.

I'm thinking he will use his old go to of: loser.

Honeycombe8

(37,648 posts)
13. You never get the REAL truth from these nicey public interviews.
Fri Dec 7, 2018, 03:20 PM
Dec 2018

You have to read between the lines. He's not going to say, "He's a moron." Instead, he'll say he "doesn't like to read, doesn't read briefing reports, doesn't like to get into the details..." He won't say he's a corrupt mob boss who wanted him to break the law. Instead, he'll say that he had to tell him, "I understand what you want to do, but you can't do it that way. It violates the law."

LOL. So Trump is confirmed to be a corrupt, moronic, mob boss.

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