{"id":37133,"date":"2018-03-14T13:00:25","date_gmt":"2018-03-14T18:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=37133"},"modified":"2018-03-14T12:05:07","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T17:05:07","slug":"another-one-bites-the-dust-tillerson-ousted-as-secretary-of-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=37133","title":{"rendered":"Another One Bites the Dust: Tillerson Ousted as Secretary of State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BY ALEX PEREZ<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With his administration in constant upheaval, President Trump maintained the tradition of firings with a surprise announcement on Twitter this morning, replacing Rex Tillerson with Mike Pompeo as the Secretary of State.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The move by President Trump came as a surprise to many, especially Tillerson, who, according to the New York Times, found out about his firing when an aide showed him the tweet. In the tweet, Trump congratulated Pompeo and thanked Tillerson for his service. With the former oil executive and President Trump disagreeing on a number of issues, many had only speculated on Tillerson\u2019s departure. The New York Times reported that House Chief of Staff John Kelly did warn Tillerson, telling him, \u201cYou might get a tweet.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Mike Pompeo, Director of the CIA, will become our new Secretary of State. He will do a fantastic job! Thank you to Rex Tillerson for his service! Gina Haspel will become the new Director of the CIA, and the first woman so chosen. Congratulations to all!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/973540316656623616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 13, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The last straw for Tillerson was when he openly disagreed with the White House regarding the poisoning of an ex-British spy. Moments after Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders declined to place the blame on Russia, Tillerson voiced his suspicion that Russia was indeed behind the ex-spy\u2019s death, supporting the UK\u2019s assessment, as reported by The Guardian. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mike Pompeo, the current CIA director, will replace Tillerson at the end of the month. As a result, CIA Deputy Director Gina Haspel will step up to replace Pompeo and become the first female to lead the CIA. Long favored by the President, Pompeo\u2019s appointment puts the position of Secretary of State more in line with Trump\u2019s plans. According to CNN, President Trump has wanted to bring Pompeo on-board for months, with the President saying that he and Pompeo are, \u201con the same wavelength\u201d and that they \u201chave a similar thought process.\u201d \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nearly three hours after sending out the tweet firing Rex Tillerson, President Trump called to dismiss him formally. While Tillerson will not vacate the position until March 31, Deputy Secretary of State John J. Sullivan will take over responsibilities by the end of the day, according to the New York Times. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The White House shake-up did not stop with Tillerson, however. Only a few hours after the Secretary of State\u2019s ousting, the White House also fired undersecretary of public affairs for the State Department, Steve Goldstein. With Goldstein\u2019s firing, the State Department now has only one out of six permanent undersecretary positions. According to CNN, the Undersecretary of Political Affairs, Tom Shannon, plans to retire along with Chief of Staff, Margaret Peterlin and the Deputy Chief of Staff, Christine Ciccone. Two other undersecretary positions await the Senate\u2019s approval.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With the much-anticipated negotiations with North Korea on the horizon, many have voiced their concern for the recent White House upheaval. Representative Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), took to Twitter to criticize the recent restructuring of the State Department saying that Pompeo\u2019s \u201ccredibility will be diminished as someone who could be here today and gone tomorrow.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Whenever Secretary Tillerson\u2019s successor goes into meetings with foreign leaders, his credibility will be diminished as someone who could be here today and gone tomorrow. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DdyLCbpUiG\">https:\/\/t.co\/DdyLCbpUiG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nancy Pelosi (@NancyPelosi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NancyPelosi\/status\/973564785139879936?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 13, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pelosi\u2019s comments point to the long list of administration officials appointed by President Trump who have either been fired or have resigned. With this, Tillerson joins the likes of Michael Flynn, Steve Bannon, Sean Spicer, Reince Priebus and more. A comprehensive list of former Trump Administration officials can be found <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2017\/08\/18\/us\/politics\/white-house-staff-fired-resigned.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">here.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY ALEX PEREZ With his administration in constant upheaval, President Trump maintained the tradition of firings with a surprise announcement on Twitter this morning, replacing&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":142,"featured_media":37138,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,3570],"tags":[11642,6877,3412,627,11670,11671,103,290,1800],"class_list":["post-37133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics-news","tag-cnn","tag-donald-trump","tag-mike-pompeo","tag-politics","tag-rex-tillerson","tag-secretary-of-state","tag-tiger-media-network","tag-tmn","tag-white-house"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tigermedianet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/rex-tillerson-fired-donald-trump-tweet-9b6.png?fit=850%2C550&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37133"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37139,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37133\/revisions\/37139"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}