{"id":34073,"date":"2018-12-07T20:25:11","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T20:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=34073"},"modified":"2018-12-07T20:25:11","modified_gmt":"2018-12-07T20:25:11","slug":"dumb-as-a-rock-seriously-mr-potus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=34073","title":{"rendered":"‘Dumb as a rock’? Seriously, Mr. POTUS?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Donald J. Trump, president of the United States, has just posted a Twitter message about a man he nominated to become the secretary of state, the nation’s top foreign service officer.<\/p>\n

Mike Pompeo is doing a great job, I am very proud of him. His predecessor, Rex Tillerson, didn\u2019t have the mental capacity needed. He was dumb as a rock and I couldn\u2019t get rid of him fast enough. He was lazy as hell. Now it is a whole new ballgame, great spirit at State!<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Yep, that’s our president, the guy who sought to present the United States’ foreign policy statements through its secretary of state.<\/p>\n

Now he calls the man he fired earlier this year “dumb as a rock.”<\/p>\n

I don’t believe Rex Tillerson is “dumb as a rock.” He ran ExxonMobil oil company before he took the job as the nation’s top diplomat. I don’t believe he was well-suited for the job at State.<\/p>\n

It is simply astonishing, though, that the president — our head of state, our commander in chief, the leader of the free world — would resort to the kind of language he is using to denigrate someone he hired<\/em> for this most sensitive of jobs.<\/p>\n

And we’re expected to take the president seriously?<\/p>\n\n

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Donald J. Trump, president of the United States, has just posted a Twitter message about a man he nominated to become the secretary of state, the nation’s top foreign service officer. Mike Pompeo is doing a great job, I am very proud of him. His predecessor, Rex Tillerson, didn\u2019t have the mental capacity needed. He … Continue reading ‘Dumb as a rock’? Seriously, Mr. POTUS?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1424,6851,3688,6734,4398],"class_list":["post-34073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-mike-pompeo","tag-potus","tag-rex-tillerson","tag-state-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34073"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34075,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34073\/revisions\/34075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}