What the Hell Is Going On

Photo: Getty Over the past few weeks, Donald Trump has been trying to spin the continual chaos around him—including the departure of top aides like Hope Hicks and Gary Cohn resigning—as an example of a calm White House that is merely “seeking perfection.” But on Tuesday, some bajillion things happened that show only what we’ve…

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Rex In Peace 

Photo: Getty Donald Trump has fired Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and is nominating CIA director Mike Pompeo to replace him. The Washington Post was the first to report the news. Tillerson has often found himself publicly at odds with Trump when it came to major issues like North Korea, the decision to move America’s…

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Rex Tillerson skips State Department’s annual announcement on human rights, alarming advocates – The Washington Post

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, who during his confirmation hearings repeatedly vowed to promote human rights as a core American value, alarmed human rights advocates when he did not appear in person to present the State Department’s annual human rights report, released Friday. In a break with long-standing tradition only rarely breached, Tillerson’s remarks were…

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Exclusive: In call with Putin, Trump denounced Obama-era nuclear arms treaty – sources | Reuters

WASHINGTON In his first call as president with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump denounced a treaty that caps U.S. and Russian deployment of nuclear warheads as a bad deal for the United States, according to two U.S. officials and one former U.S. official with knowledge of the call.   When Putin raised the possibility…

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The State Department’s entire senior management team just resigned – The Washington Post

Rex Tillerson, President-elect Trump’s nominee for secretary of state, had a rocky first day facing members of the Senate during his confirmation hearing on Jan. 11 at the Capitol. (Peter Stevenson/The Washington Post) Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s job running the State Department just got considerably more difficult. The entire senior level of management officials…

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Trolls decided I was taking pictures of Rex Tillerson’s notes. I wasn’t even there. – The Washington Post

Rex Tillerson appears before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations for his confirmation hearing as secretary of state. (Photo by Melina Mara/The Washington Post) There’s a joke among Asian Americans that people think we all look the same. That joke became my own personal Pizzagate late Wednesday: I got caught in a terrible case of mistaken identity…

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