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Greg Evans
May 23, 2019
Donald Trump has lashed out at his former secretary of state Rex Tillerson after he reportedly told the House Foreign Affairs Committee that the president was less prepared than Vladimir Putin for a meeting between the two in Hamburg in 2017.
On Wednesday, the Washington Post published a story about Tillerson's seven-hour closed meeting with the committee where he reportedly revealed that Putin was far more prepared than Trump, leaving the POTUS at a distinct disadvantage.
Trump, who sacked Tillerson in March 2018 and replaced with Mike Pompeo has since branded the 67-year-old energy executive as 'dumb as a rock' and 'ill-equipped to be secretary of state' in a routine Twitter outburst.
This isn't the first time that Trump has aimed such an insult at Tillerson and just like last time, the insult has come back to haunt him, because why would you hire someone who was apparently as 'dumb as a rock' in the first place?
Some of those @realDonaldTrump now says were dumb, incompetent, or crooked His personal lawyer, Michael Cohen His… https://t.co/y2UdPcPkYg— David Frum (@David Frum) 1558619508
The guy who picked Tillerson for that job must have really been a dumbass. https://t.co/iqCTjNvXuX— Arkansas Blog (@Arkansas Blog) 1558622077
@realDonaldTrump So you hired “a man who is as dumb as a rock and totally ill prepared and ill equipped to be Secre… https://t.co/0Tdf3xvLlc— Mia Farrow (@Mia Farrow) 1558615712
@realDonaldTrump The man Trump appointed Secretary of State. https://t.co/GmWlTE4gZN— Morten Øverbye (@Morten Øverbye) 1558615875
@realDonaldTrump “I only hire the best” -Donald dumb as a rock Trump— Angela Belcamino (@Angela Belcamino) 1558616021
You picked him YOU MORON!! #TrumpMustResign #IDontDoCoverUps #TrumpTantrum https://t.co/d693bzxqss— 💉🎅Vaccinated BlueTexan💉 (@💉🎅Vaccinated BlueTexan💉) 1558621488
Others pulled Trump up on the problem with tweeting stuff like this, especially when Putin apparently controlled the 2017 meeting with ease.
Trump tweets stuff like this while the First Lady ostensibly works on an anti-cyberbullying campaign. #BeBest #OrNot https://t.co/G2rmdaeSGe— Aaron Rupar (@Aaron Rupar) 1558614704
Putin agrees I killed it at that meeting! https://t.co/tBfvzOhqzq— Josh Marshall (@Josh Marshall) 1558615713
I bet Tillerson didn't lose $1 billion over 10 years, and I also bet he didn't pay $130,000 for a one-night stand. https://t.co/ptLeXC5Wfs— Christopher Bouzy (@Christopher Bouzy) 1558614984
Hamburg was the July, 2017 meeting after which Trump personally took away his interpreter's notes and instructed th… https://t.co/mRXbxh49Tz— Bill Kristol (@Bill Kristol) 1558617329
@realDonaldTrump It’s weird that you would cite Putin as an authority as to whether you were out prepared by Putin— Elie Mystal (@Elie Mystal) 1558618976
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