Tillerson slams Trump who then says Tillerson 'is as dumb as a rock'

Former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson appeared on CBS News journalist Bob Schieffer sitting down with the veteran newsman during a fundraiser for the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas, the Houston Chronicle reported.

Tillerson spoke about President Trump and some observations during his tenure as Secretary of State, saying that he always had to remind President Trump that some of his plans wold "violate the law." He also said that he and Trump did not share a "common value system" and were "obviously starkly different in our styles."

President Trump, who is no shrinking violet, fired back that Tillerson saying that he was "as dumb as a rock."

“When the president would say, ‘Here's what I want to do, and here's how I want to do it,’ and I'd have to say to him, ‘Well, Mr. President, I understand what you want to do, but you can't do it that way. It violates the law, it violates the treaty, you know. He got really frustrated,” Tillerson said. “I think he grew tired of me being the guy every day who told him he can’t do that and let’s talk about what he can do.”

He said he told President Trump that he would be willing to “fight the fight” to change laws in Congress so the president could press forward with his agenda.

Trump also fired back on Twitter, saying Tillerson "didn't have the mental capacity needed" as the nation's top diplomat.

But let us not forget that President Trump picked him.

"He was dumb as a rock and I couldn’t get rid of him fast enough," Trump said. "He was lazy as hell. Now it is a whole new ballgame, great spirit at State!"

Tillerson, 66, was fired from the White House in March after rumors of a rift between him and Trump had been circulating for some time. In leaving, Tillerson said Washington, D.C., can be a “very mean-spirited town.”

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Tillerson also contended Trump tends to act “on his instincts”  and this was incongruent to the way Tillerson worked. “What was challenging for me – coming from the disciplined, highly process-oriented ExxonMobil corporation – to go to work for a man who is pretty undisciplined, doesn’t like to read, doesn’t read briefing reports, doesn’t like to get into the details of a lot of things, but rather just kinda says, ‘Look, this is what I believe,’” Tillerson explained.

Tillerson also believes that there is no question that Russia interfered in the 2016 election and seeks to "undermine our confidence and undermine the world's confidence in us," the Houston Chronicle reported.

President Trump replaced Tillerson with Mike Pompeo, and it's clear that Pompeo is doing a better job and is much more qualified than Tillerson.

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