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US President Donald Trump fired Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Tuesday after a series of public rifts over policy on North Korea, Russia and Iran, replacing his chief diplomat with loyalist CIA Director Mike Pompeo.
The biggest shakeup of Trump's Cabinet since he took office in January 2017 was announced by the president on Twitter as his administration works toward a potential meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un after months of harsh rhetoric and rising tensions on Pyongyang's nuclear program.
The rare firing of the United States' top diplomat capped months of friction between the Republican president and the 65-year-old former Exxon Mobil Corp chief executive. The tensions peaked last fall amid reports Tillerson had called Trump a "moron" and considered resigning. Tillerson never denied using the word.
Critics expressed dismay at the decision to swap out top diplomats so soon before the unprecedented meeting and worried that Pompeo would encourage Trump to scrap the 2015 Iran nuclear deal and be hawkish on North Korea.
Critics said the move would sow more instability in the volatile Trump administration and marks the departure of another moderate who sought to emphasize the United States' strong ties to its allies amid Trump's criticism.
Trump announced the changes in a morning Twitter post and later told reporters more about why he removed Tillerson.
"We got along actually quite well but we disagreed on things," Trump said. "When you look at the Iran deal: I think it's terrible, I guess he thinks it was OK. I wanted to break it or do something, and he felt a little bit differently."
Mike Pompeo, Director of the CIA, will become our new Secretary of State. He will do a fantastic job! Thank you to Rex Tillerson for his service! Gina Haspel will become the new Director of the CIA, and the first woman so chosen. Congratulations to all!At the State Department, a visibly emotional Tillerson said Trump called him around noon from Air Force One, hours after he was summarily dismissed via Twitter. Tillerson also spoke with White House Chief of Staff John Kelly.
- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 13, 2018
President Trump fires Secretary of State Rex Tillerson https://t.co/n8K9VEwlUK pic.twitter.com/HQ5k6ZuFaGSenior White House officials said Trump wanted his new team in place before any summit with Kim, who invited the US president to meet by May after months of escalating tensions over North Korea's nuclear and missile programs.
- TIME (@TIME) March 14, 2018
President Trump was not pleased with Rex Tillerson, so removed him today, and chose CIA Director Mike Pompeo to replace him as secretary of state. @margbrennan reporting. https://t.co/GMuqZg6Ojm pic.twitter.com/vNsHnPrPJ0Senior White House officials said Chief of Staff Kelly had asked Tillerson to step down on Friday but did not want to make it public while he was on a trip to Africa. Trump's Twitter announcement came only a few hours after Tillerson, who cut his trip to Africa short, landed in Washington.
- CBS News (@CBSNews) March 13, 2018
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