Where's Rex? Secretary of State Tillerson missing in action

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President Donald Trump’s administration came out swinging at North Korea after its latest nuclear test. Trump threatened to cut off all trade with any country that traded with Pyongyang; U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley accused North Korea of “begging for war”; Secretary of Defense James Mattis appeared to up the ante, warning Kim Jong-un that his country risked “total annihilation.”

But there was one voice noticeably absent from this clamor: America’s top diplomat.

The State Department won’t say where Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was over the weekend. He called his counterparts in the region and participated remotely in National Security Council calls, as State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert confirmed, but didn’t give any remarks or even put out a statement on North Korea testing a nuclear weapon.

Instead, it was Haley who was out in front on North Korea, saying it was time “to exhaust all of our diplomatic means before it’s too late.”

http://www.denverpost.com/2017/09/06/wheres-rex-its-the-state-departments-time-to-step-up/

[Raster]

1. Rexxon???

[HipChick]

2. He was tired....taking a nap

[Sneederbunk]

3. In an undisclosed location, Cheney style?

[spanone]

5. well, he did criticize trump...said 'trump speaks for himself' re: charlottesville

Tillerson: Trump 'speaks for himself'

http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/27/politics/tillerson-trump-speaks-for-himself/index.html

[leftstreet]

4. According to Putin, he has "fallen in with the wrong company"

9/7/17

Putin: Tillerson has ‘fallen in with the wrong company’

Russian President Vladimir Putin in a Thursday meeting reportedly joked that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson had “fallen in with the wrong company” in the years since Putin bestowed upon him the Russian Order of Friendship.

“We awarded your compatriot Mr. Tillerson the Order of Friendship, but he seems to have fallen in with the wrong company and to be steering in the other direction,” Putin told a U.S. citizen, as reported by Reuters.

Putin in 2013 awarded Tillerson the Russian state honor during Tillerson’s time serving as the CEO of Exxon Mobil Corp.

“I hope that the wind of cooperation, friendship and reciprocity will eventually put him on the right path,” Putin told the U.S. citizen during the Thursday meeting in Russia.

http://thehill.com/policy/international/russia/349596-putin-tillerson-has-fallen-in-with-the-wrong-company

[Wellstone ruled]

6. So Rex will be

back at Exxon Mobile by this time next year. Wonder if he will be around for the White House Xmas Party.