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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,757 posts)
Thu May 23, 2019, 03:27 PM May 2019

Trump fires back at 'dumb as a rock' Tillerson on Putin

President Trump on Thursday blasted Rex Tillerson after The Washington Post reported that the former secretary of State told lawmakers that Russian President Vladimir Putin was better prepared than Trump for a meeting in 2017.

"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 (he got fired) that I was out-prepared by Vladimir Putin at a meeting in Hamburg, Germany," Trump tweeted.

"I don't think Putin would agree. Look how the U.S. is doing!"


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The president nominated Tillerson as secretary of State at the outset of his administration, and fired him in March 2018 amid numerous clashes over U.S. foreign policy.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/trump-fires-back-at-dumb-as-a-rock-tillerson-on-putin/ar-AABNEuQ?li=BBnb7Kz

No big surprise. All Putin had to do was appeal to the dotard's ego and he'd be eating out of his hand.
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at140

(6,110 posts)
4. I think the economy is getting ready to
Thu May 23, 2019, 03:35 PM
May 2019

Tank before election day. Other than the 3.2% GDP growth and low unemployment I can't think of a single accomplishment. Once the economy tanks, Trump is a dead man walking.

RockRaven

(14,906 posts)
3. "I know you are but what am I" strikes again. Tillerson called him dumb, so when Dolt45 needs
Thu May 23, 2019, 03:35 PM
May 2019

an insult, he goes for calling *Tillerson* dumb right back. What a f-ing childish, shallow, boring maneuver.

DFW

(54,302 posts)
5. Trump calls Tillerson "Dumb as a Rock" and then
Thu May 23, 2019, 03:38 PM
May 2019

Trump wonders why in the world would Tillerson EVER say anything under oath that could be detrimental to him.

Why, indeed.....?

3catwoman3

(23,949 posts)
7. What indeed? For someone who claimed that he would...
Thu May 23, 2019, 03:49 PM
May 2019

...get the “best” people, i would be hard for him to do any worse at choosing people for important and influential positions. He’d do better throwing darts at a board with names of everyday citizens on it.

MyOwnPeace

(16,919 posts)
8. They were selected for a purpose....
Thu May 23, 2019, 04:06 PM
May 2019

destroy the agency that they were to head. Look at the list - look at their qualifications - look at what they have done.
No, everyday citizens would try to defend their mission, not destroy it.

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
10. I don't think Trump is in any position to call ANYBODY else
Thu May 23, 2019, 04:14 PM
May 2019

"dumb as a rock". Or fat, or ugly or a fair amount of any other negatively descriptive terms.

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