Tillerson not Trump thanks Mexico for Harvey offer

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Newsweek

Tillerson — not Trump — thanks Mexico for Harvey offer
Newsweek NEWSWEEK
31 AUG 2017 AT 06:38 ET


Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has thanked Mexico for its offer of relief for the victims of flooding caused by Hurricane Harvey.

Tillerson did not say whether the U.S. would be taking Mexico up on its offer of help, but he has said more on the matter than President Trump, who has not yet commented on Mexico’s offer.

Speaking ahead of a pre-planned meeting with Mexican Foreign Minister Luis Videgaray Caso, Tillerson said Mexico had “offered a wide range of assistance.”

He added in comments carried by The Washington Post: “It's very generous of Mexico to offer to help at this very, very challenging time for our citizens down in Texas.”

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2017/08/tillerson-not-trump-thanks-mexico-for-harvey-offer/

[Timmygoat]

1. What a jerk

Trump is a small minded mean jerk who does not have any redeeming qualities, not even good manners, which would cost him nothing.

[bucolic_frolic]

2. No longer filling the role of the office

just one ranting, resentful, angry mess

[raven mad]

3. Well, at least ONE of those idiots has some sense.

Maybe.

[brush]

4. Hu-u-u-u-h! Something's up. trump is being shunted aside by his cabinet members again.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029532151

[Lucky Luciano]

5. Let's get those 8 cabinet members needed to 25 45!

[MGKrebs]

6. Tillerson's learning!

I suspect this is how Trump's business managers treat him: Let him come in and make some bold, stupid statements then leave. Everybody then completely ignores him and takes care of business.

[IronLionZion]

7. Trump will tell them to send money for the wall

plus some taco bowls

It would be interesting to see how the flooded areas rebuild without immigrant labor if Trump threatens to round up brown people whose documents might have been lost in the storm.

[Scarsdale]

9. Has anyone heard

if Russia has offered anything? Maybe they just applaud disasters in the US, (like tRump in the WH) so keep their money on hand for bribing gop members.

[BigmanPigman]

12. He didn't even offer poor, poor Jared a loan to save his NYC builing

from its multi million $ debt. Russain/American relations must really be turning sour if 45 or a family member can't get a Russian bail out.

[George II]

8. I know he's a republican and a big business man, but...

...I've been pleasantly surprised at how statesman-like and sensible he's been.

He knows how to act in the real world, unlike his idiotic "boss".

[OKNancy]

10. A local article published as he was being confirmed

interviewed a few people ( not nutty Republican types) who knew him and all said he was kind and generous. They worked with him in Boy Scouts. He lobbied for gay youth to be able to join.

Wish he didn't let the State department dwindle down, but maybe he had no control over that. I don't know.

[George II]

11. That isn't his fault. A couple of months ago he was complaining...

...that trump wouldn't allow him to fill all the vacancies in the State Department.

Here's a story alluding to that....

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/tillerson-faces-many-unfilled-top-spots-state-department-n788751

[LiberalLovinLug]

14. He sounded like a bit of a dick when I first read about him

http://www.salon.com/2017/03/31/do-not-look-rex-tillerson-in-the-eyes-if-you-work-at-the-state-department-report/

Eight weeks into his tenure as President Donald Trump’s Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson has almost completely walled himself off from the rest of his department, The Washington Post reported Friday, as career diplomats have been instructed to avoid making eye contact with their boss.

Tillerson takes a private elevator to his office on the seventh floor of the State Department building, where few State employees catch a glimpse of him.

The Post suggests that Tillerson’s lack of communication with his department led to the embarrassing gaffe of cancelling a NATO foreign ministers’ meeting.

News of Tillerson’s timidness with his employees comes a week after the former ExxonMobil CEO admitted that he only took a job in Trump’s administration because his wife told him to.

The top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Rep. Eliot Engel of New York, said that he has had discussions with Tillerson and got the impression that the secretary of state disagreed with Trump’s commitment to downsize the State Department.

“When you put it all together, it certainly seems they’re trying to downsize the State Department and make it irrelevant.” I’m at a loss for words, Engel told The Post. “Why would Tillerson take the job if he was not going to defend his agency?”

Another senior Senate Democratic aide speculated that Tillerson has a distrust of his bureaucracy.

“Part of it is a deep distrust of bureaucracy,” the aide said. “It sets a command climate that makes people cautious and paranoid. These folks, in their political-commissar roles, take that to an extreme. Everything we have heard is about how small the aperture is for information coming in and going out of the secretary’s office. That is not a recipe for success.”

Since taking over the State Department, Tillerson has fostered a sense among career diplomats that they are considered an obstacle to change, one department official told The Post.

.....

Avoid making eye contact with him? Like he thinks he's the alpha wolf? Because he's so much wealthier than his underlings?

I guess in today's world, anyone who is not Trump by comparison looks decent.

[LiberalLovinLug]

13. Trump is so petty

I wouldn't be surprised if he was pouting that "NOW Mexico is offering money!? For the stupid flood and the stupid people there, while my great wall is of so much more importance, and they refuse to give me a peso for THAT! I'll show them...I'm not even going to thank them as the offer was OBVIOUSLY just a stab at ME!"

This sounds a bit over the top. But with Trump, I would not be surprised if it were the case.

[keithbvadu2]

15. FAUX News and GOP bragged that Trump has been acting so "Presidential".

FAUX News and GOP bragged that Trump has been acting so "Presidential".

Yet it's his staff doing the job while Trump tweets and plays golf on vacation.