Tossed Salad: Before Tillerson Got The Axe, Trump Made Him Eat Wilted Salad

THURMONT, MD - JANUARY 6: (AFP OUT) U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson listens as Republicans take turns speaking to the media at Camp David on January 6, 2018 in Thurmont, Maryland. President Trump met with staff... THURMONT, MD - JANUARY 6: (AFP OUT) U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson listens as Republicans take turns speaking to the media at Camp David on January 6, 2018 in Thurmont, Maryland. President Trump met with staff, members of his Cabinet and Republican members of Congress to discuss the Republican legislative agenda for 2018. (Photo by Chris Kleponis-Pool/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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A few months before Rex Tillerson was ousted as secretary of state, President Donald Trump ordered Tillerson to eat a wilted salad during a trip to China, according to a Wall Street Journal report.

Trump was concerned about offending his guests in China and upon seeing plates of wilted Caesar salad delivered to U.S. officials, Trump singled out Tillerson, according to the Wall Street Journal.

“Rex,” Trump said, per the Journal, “eat the salad.”

At that time, tension had been building between Tillerson and Trump. The two disagreed on several issues, and a month prior, NBC News reported that Tillerson called Trump a “moron.”

Read the Wall Street Journal’s full report here.

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  1. Bully bullies over a wilted salad and name calling but hides behind twitter and uses his lemmings to do the actual firing.

    Fat Nixon is a coward and a sadist but those who choose to work for him are masochistic eunuchs and courtesans.

  2. Orders from a guy who eats his steaks well done with catsup.

  3. Fitting for a tossed salad of an administration.

    In the urban dictionary sense.

    Don’t google that at work.

  4. Tillerson: “tRump, eat a whole bag of plastic Chinese dicks.”

  5. Also, Donald, you clownish dingleberry, if your fucking presidential delegation was served shitty food by the Chinese government, the offense had already been recorded.

    Unsurprisingly, it was a little too nuanced for you to understand.

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