Sec of State Tillerson: Our strategies 'are resilient enough' for President Trump's tweets

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Secretary of State Rex Tillerson says US foreign policy is "resilient enough to accommodate unknowns," including President Donald Trump's tweets. In an interview with The New York Times Magazine, Sec Tillerson said the president's tweets often catch him off guard, but that he tries to incorporate the messages "into my strategies and my tactics." "In a dynamic situation, like we deal with here all the time — and you can go walk around the world, they’re all dynamic — things happen," he said. "You wake up the next morning, something’s happened. I wake up the next morning, the president’s got a tweet out there. So I think about, O.K., that’s a new condition. How do I want to use that?”


Sec of State Tillerson: Our strategies 'are resilient enough' for President Trump's tweets Rex Tillerson and the Unraveling of the State Department (New York Times Magazine)