If Trump's tweets have this much influence over foreign policy, we're all screwed
Diplomacy isn't easy ... especially if your boss is Donald Trump.
Speaking at Stanford on Wednesday, according to Vanity Fair, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson shared this fun insight into White House foreign policy:
“The challenge is just getting caught up because I don’t even have a Twitter account that I can follow what he is tweeting, so my staff usually has to print his tweets out and hand them to me,” Tillerson told [Condoleezza] Rice. Then the secretary asks himself, “How do we take that and now use it?”
Uhhh ... what? So the secretary of state just looks at print-outs of Trump's incoherent tweets and tries to turn them into something resembling coherent foreign policy?
Well, let's look at what ol' Rexy has to deal with.
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Behold, the foundations of U.S. dipomacy. But just in case Tillerson needs some extra input, here's a look at some of Trump's tweets from before he became president.
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Tillerson doesn't deserve our pity. He wasn't forced to become Trump's Twitter interpreter. But, yeah, good luck with that, Rex.
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Keith Wagstaff is an assistant editor at Mashable and a terrible Settlers of Catan player. He has written for TIME, The Wall Street Journal Magazine, NBC News, The Village Voice, VICE, GQ and New York Magazine, among many other reputable and not-so-reputable publications. After nearly a decade in New York City, he now lives in his native Los Angeles.
