Trump Picks Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson for Secretary of State
December 13th, 2016Via: BBC:
President-elect Donald Trump has confirmed the chief executive of Exxon Mobil, Rex Tillerson, as his choice for US secretary of state.
In a statement, Mr Trump praised Mr Tillerson, 64, as among the “most accomplished business leaders and international dealmakers” in the world.
Mr Tillerson is said to have a good relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin, alarming both Democrats and some Republicans.
Thank god it wasn’t Romney. ““Donald Trump was interviewing Mitt Romney for secretary of State in order to torture him. To toy with him,” said Roger Stone, one of Trump’s closest advisers.”
Electing big corporate America looks really bad, my kernel of hope is that these people will be harder to control, because they’ve made their own money. Corporate taxes are out of control, the US doesn’t encourage outsourcing, it economically imposes it.
I don’t mean to sound too supportive of Trump, but the past 8 years have been a straight Kamikaze trip for America. I have a hard time imagining a stupider geopolitical idea than poking Putin in the eye constantly, considering how inferior our military has become.
At this point, I have just one question:
Is Cheney going to be a part of this regime?
Cheney: No. He’s a neocon, Trump is destroying that brand.
Tillerson is fantastic news.
There is a lot of in-fighting among the factions. I don’t mean political parties, those have been irrelevant for a long time. I am not a huge fan of Trump, but he has said some interesting things.
“Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump wanted to have the last U.S. Republican president, George W. Bush, impeached over his foreign policy decision to invade Iraq in 2003, the Daily Caller noted Monday.
In a 2008 interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, Trump said he was surprised that the Democratic House speaker at the time, Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California, did not attempt to impeach Bush for invading Iraq and ousting Saddam Hussein.
“I was surprised that she didn’t do more in terms of Bush and going after Bush,” Trump said.
“It just seemed like she was going to really look to impeach Bush and get him out of office, which, personally, I think would have been a wonderful thing,” he added.
Trump went on to explain that Bush should have “absolutely” been impeached because he “lied” about the war. “He got us into the war with lies,” Trump said.
“I mean, look at the trouble Bill Clinton got into with something that was totally unimportant. And they tried to impeach him, which was nonsense,” Trump continued. “And, yet, Bush got us into this horrible war with lies, by lying, by saying they had weapons of mass destruction, by saying all sorts of things that turned out not to be true.””