Report: Trump, Pence Livid About Report Tillerson Called POTUS A ‘Moron’

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson walks to speaks at a news conference about Qatar at the State Department in Washington, Friday June 9, 2017. Tillerson is calling on Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and ... Secretary of State Rex Tillerson walks to speaks at a news conference about Qatar at the State Department in Washington, Friday June 9, 2017. Tillerson is calling on Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain to immediately ease their blockade on Qatar. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) MORE LESS
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Contrary to his sunny public statements, President Donald Trump was none too pleased by a report that his own secretary of state had threatened to resign and openly disparaged him as a “moron,” NBC News reported Thursday evening.

In a report that doubled as a laundry list of unnamed White House sources, NBC News’ Andrea Mitchell described the mobilization of top White House aides to contain the aftermath of an NBC News report on Tillerson’s actions and remarks.

Trump on Wednesday said he was “very honored” by Tillerson’s unscheduled remarks to reporters, and called the NBC News report “a totally phony story.”

In private, however, Trump was “furious” about the report, Mitchell reported, citing five unnamed senior administration officials, and White House chief of staff John Kelly abandoned plans to travel with him to Las Vegas in order to “manage the fallout.”

And Mitchell reported, citing seven unnamed senior officials, that the report left Pence “fuming.”

Tillerson’s unscheduled press conference on Wednesday, where he did not deny calling the President a “moron,” was a result of a conversation Pence had with the secretary of state, according to Mitchell.

Kelly then met with Tillerson and Secretary of Defense James Mattis, Mitchell reported, citing three unnamed officials, to discuss their strategy.

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  1. Next, let’s hear that one of them calls Trump a “short-fingered vulgarian”.

  2. And Mitchell reported that the report left Pence "fuming.”

    Well, that’s not hard to do, considering that Pence was already fuming before the report came out:

  3. Avatar for drtv drtv says:

    I guess the truth really hurts. :joy_cat:

  4. Life can offer some rude surprises when you step outside the universe of alternative facts.

  5. Wait until Mother Pence tells Pence that the wording was “FUCKING Moron.” Poor things will be all worked up with the vapors.

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