WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump fired Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Tuesday and said he would nominate CIA Director Mike Pompeo to replace him, ending Tillerson's difficult tenure by tweeting an ouster that had been long expected and yet was shocking in its abruptness.
"We
disagreed on things," Trump said moments later, a diplomatic version of
a difficult relationship with his top diplomat that included reports
that Tillerson had called the president a moron in meetings with other
officials.
Trump's personal assistant John McEntee has also been fired, according to the Wall Street Journal.
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