We awoke this morning to the following news:
Early
this morning, the president announced via Twitter that Mike Pompeo, the current
director of the CIA, would replace Secretary Rex Tillerson at the State
Department. Steve Goldstein, a State Department official, told CNN that
Tillerson found out via tweet this morning.
Donald
J. Trump
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!
This is
not the first time the president has publicly fired a high-ranking member of
his administration without letting the individual know ahead of time. Last
summer, former FBI director James Comey was made aware of his firing during a
speech he was giving at the FBI field office in Los Angeles.
This news reminded me
of Episode 7 from Season 6 of Sex and the City, originally aired ten years ago,
in which Carrie’s boyfriend Berger broke up with her via a message left on a
post-it note stuck to her computer screen.
It
seems to me that our President is following the Jack Berger method for
extricating himself from unwanted personal relationships to deal with ending
his no-longer-desirable professional relationships.
I
guess Neil Sedaka got it right in his 1975 hit “Breaking Up is Hard to Do.”
Love,
Rebecca
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