Tillerson Responds To Comment He Was “Castrated” By Trump In BEST WAY POSSIBLE

A few days ago, Senator Bob Corker had some pretty harsh things to say about Rex Tillerson.

“You cannot publicly castrate your own secretary of state” without limiting the options for dealing with North Korea, Corker, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations committee, told the Post.

 

Tillerson told a news conference in Beijing two weeks ago that the United States was directly communicating with North Korea on its nuclear and missile programs but it had shown no interest in dialogue.

 

Trump took to Twitter the next day, saying Tillerson was “wasting his time” trying to negotiate with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

Well, the Secretary of State has responded with a sense of humor…

HA!

According to this:

With a little probing, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson responded to Sen. Bob Corker’s complaint that he had been ‘castrated’ by President Trump on the world stage.

 

‘I checked. I’m fully intact,’ Tillerson told CNN’s Jake Tapper on Sunday.

 

On Friday, Corker, the retiring Tennessee Republican who has been feuding with President Trump all week, told the Washington Post he was the ‘most exercised about’ the president’s treatment of Tillerson, who Corker complimented for making great strides with China, only to be undercut.

 

When you jack the legs out from under your chief diplomat, you cause all that to fall apart,’ Corker said. ‘Us working with [Beijing] effectively is the key to not getting to a binary choice,’ he continued, speaking about the North Korean threat.

 

‘When you publicly castrate your secretary of state, you take that off the table,’ Corker said.

 

Earlier this month, during Tillerson’s trip to Beijing, Trump interrupted the negotiations with a series of tweets suggesting diplomacy wasn’t going to work with North Korea.

 

‘I told Rex Tillerson, our wonderful Secretary of State, that he is wasting his time trying to negotiate with Little Rocket Man…,’ Trump tweeted. ‘Save your energy Rex, we’ll do what has to be done!’

 

Later in the day Trump wrote, ‘Being nice to Rocket Man hasn’t worked in 25 years, why would it work now? Clinton failed, Bush failed, and Obama failed. I won’t fail.’

 

During today’s sit-down on State of the Union, Tapper asked Tillerson about those tweets, suggesting that Chinese officials and North Korean officials could be lead to believe that ‘Secretary Tillerson doesn’t really speak for President Trump.’

 

Tillerson responded by pointing to the close relationship between Trump and President Xi of China.

 

‘But don’t tweets like that undermine you?’ Tapper pressed.

 

Tillerson said Trump wanted to make it clear to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un that the U.S. had military preparations ‘ready to go.’

 

‘The president has also made clear to me that he wants this solved diplomatically. He’s not seeking to go to war,’ Tillerson said.

Tapper then asked, ‘So he doesn’t think it’s a waste of time?’

 

Tillerson gave a ‘no, sir.’

 

‘He has made it clear to me to continue my diplomatic efforts, which we are, and we will, as I have told others, those diplomatic efforts will continue until the first bomb drops.’

Another day, another drama.