Rex Tillerson looked at a statue and can't anymore as secretary of state

He's so done with this all.
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Sasha Lekach
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Rex Tillerson looked at a statue and can't anymore as secretary of state
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is done. Credit: ALEX BRANDON/AFP/Getty Images

It's not easy being President Donald Trump's secretary of state.

Rex Tillerson let it slip how burnt out he is while walking through a park in Geneva, Switzerland on Thursday.

As he passed a statue in the Parc Mon Repos of a person curled up into themselves with their arms wrapped around their body, Tillerson said, "Yea, some days I feel like I need to do that, curl up in a ball."

Tillerson has been on busy trip meeting with leaders from Saudi Arabia, India, Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. In Switzerland, he discussed Syria and the U.S. role in the war-torn country's government.

It's a lot to take on world leadership and politics in the Middle East -- Tillerson is tired. It doesn't help when your relationship with the president is fraught and on thin ice, mostly because you think the president is a moron.

Curling up in a ball sounds so much better than dealing with all this.

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Sasha Lekach

Sasha is a news writer at Mashable's San Francisco office. She's an SF native who went to UC Davis and later received her master's from the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. She's been reporting out of her hometown over the years at Bay City News (news wire), SFGate (the San Francisco Chronicle website), and even made it out of California to write for the Chicago Tribune. She's been described as a bookworm and a gym rat.

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