Further proof that everything Trump touches turns to shit. (Pun sort of intended).
According to those sources, Kelly recounted a very awkward conversation with Tillerson during which he informed the secretary that President Donald Trump would very likely soon fire him. The awkwardness was less a result of the contents of the conversation than its setting.
Tillerson, Kelly told the room, was suffering from a stomach bug during a diplomatic swing through Africa, and was using a toilet when Kelly broke the news to him.
As The Daily Beast notes, what is especially disturbing about this story is not where Tillerson happened to be when Kelly talked to him. It’s the fact that Kelly thought it as appropriate to give out this tidbit to a room full of reporters.
Sources were stunned that, even in an off-record setting, Kelly would say this—to a room filled with White House officials and political reporters—about Tillerson, who does not officially leave the State Department until the end of the month.
Kelly is routinely touted as one of the more mature members of Trump’s top brass and has often been branded as one of the “adults” in charge.
There aren’t any adults in this administration, with the exception of Mattis. Corker was right. It really is an adult day care.