Former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson Is Ripping On President Trump

Ughhh I’m not a big fan of this.

I think it’s pretty classless to talk crap about your former boss in such a public way, no matter WHO your boss is.

The fact that his boss was the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES – and a POTUS who is mercilessly bashed and criticized for every little thing, makes it a lot ickier. There’s a time and a place for criticism, and this just doesn’t feel like the right to me.

Former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is now running his mouth about how Trump wanted to break the law all the time… or something.

According to Fox News:

Former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson claims he always had to remind President Trump some of his plans “violate the law.”

Was this necessary, Rex?

In a rare public appearance, Tillerson sat down with former veteran CBS News journalist Bob Schieffer during a fundraiser for the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, according to the Houston Chronicle.

Tillerson blamed his strained relationship with Trump on the fact they did not share a “common value system” and were “obviously starkly different in our styles.”

“When the president would say, ‘Here’s what I want to do, and here’s how I want to do it,’ and I’d have to say to him, ‘Well, Mr. President, I understand what you want to do, but you can’t do it that way. It violates the law, it violates the treaty, you know. He got really frustrated,” Tillerson said. “I think he grew tired of me being the guy every day who told him he can’t do that and let’s talk about what he can do.”

Saying you don’t have the same “value system” is basically just a shady way of saying “I’m a good guy, and he’s a bad guy.”

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He said he told Trump he would be willing to “fight the fight” to change laws in Congress so the president could press forward with his agenda.

“That’s very, very interesting,” Schieffer said to laughter.

Tillerson also contended Trump tends to act “on his instincts” although it’s “not his intent to act on impulse.

“What was 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 kinda says, ‘Look, this is what I believe,’” Tillerson said.

Tillerson also added fuel to the “Russia” fire:

During the event, Tillerson, who is from Texas, said there is “no question” Russia interfered in the 2016 election. He said the country seeks to “undermine our confidence and undermine the world’s confidence in us,” according to the Houston Chronicle.

I have a very hard time understanding his motivation here.