Captain Chaos Strikes Again: He Sacked Rex Tillerson

Captain Chaos struck again this morning when (using twitter because a normal press release just wouldn't do.) he announced the sacking of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.  Tillerson will be replaced by Mike Pompeo presently the Director of the CIA. If you've never heard of Mike Pompeo don't feel bad he's a former Republican Congressman from Kansas whose almost as bright as Donald Trump which of course is an oxymoron.   

It's rather interesting timing given Donald Trump's recent acceptance to meet with North Korean leader Kim-Jong un possibly as soon as May.  Neither Donald Trump or Mike Pompeo have any experience with diplomacy.  Nor our they experts on North Korea nor is anyone else in the administration as there is no U.S. ambassador to South Korea as the person nominated by Trump withdrew his name over comments he made about taking military action against the North if they failed to give up their nuclear arsenal.  Which they will never agree to. The foreign service officer who was working on this issue has also resigned. 

Given Donald Trump's penchant for not listening to actual good advice or just going with his gut instinct will only lead to a diplomatic cockup.  

Wilkerson: Invasion Of Iran A 'Disaster That Would Make Iraq Pale In Comparison'

By Heather

Trump and some of his allies are apparently unhappy with Sec. of State Rex Tillerson for certifying the Iranian nuclear deal, and according to an article in Foreign Policy Magazine, are going to do their best to undermine the agreement: Trump Assigns White House Team to Target Iran Nuclear Deal, Sidelining State Department:

After a contentious meeting with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson this week, President Donald Trump instructed a group of trusted White House staffers to make the potential case for withholding certification of Iran at the next 90-day review of the nuclear deal. The goal was to give Trump what he felt the State Department had failed to do: the option to declare that Tehran was not in compliance with the contentious agreement.

“The president assigned White House staffers with the task of preparing for the possibility of decertification for the 90-day review period that ends in October — a task he had previously given to Secretary Tillerson and the State Department,” a source close to the White House told Foreign Policy. [...]

FP spoke with three sources who were either invited to take part in the new process or were briefed on the president’s decision on certification. All described the new process as a way to work around the State Department, which the president felt pushed certification forward by giving him no other options. [...]

On Monday morning, work was on track for the administration to again certify that Iran was meeting the necessary conditions, but the president expressed second thoughts around midday. A meeting between Trump and Tillerson that afternoon quickly turned into a meltdown.

A third source with intimate knowledge of that meeting said Steve Bannon, the White House chief strategist, and Sebastian Gorka, deputy assistant to the president, were particularly vocal, repeatedly asking Tillerson to explain the U.S. national security benefits of certification. “They repeatedly questioned Rex about why recertifying would be good for U.S. national security, and Rex was unable to answer,” the source said.

“The president kept demanding why he should certify, and the answers Tillerson gave him infuriated him,” the source added.