[Hoot Gibson]

The tweet came shortly after Rex Tillerson returned from his debut trip to Africa, on March 13, 2018: “Mike Pompeo, Director of the CIA, will become our new Secretary of State,” President Donald Trump wrote. “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!”

Tillerson was the first Cabinet official ever to be fired on social media; Trump only got around to calling him some three hours later. The sequence appeared to be a calculated snub: Trump had come to dislike Tillerson, who’d called him a “moron.” John Kelly, then the president’s chief of staff, later made a point of noting that Tillerson had been on the toilet when Kelly had phoned him in advance of Trump’s tweet to tell him that his dismissal was likely


So Tillerson is a gutter ball for you, want to try again?

Really, Jet, do you think that there is anybody in this country who is unaware of Trump's use of childish nicknames and public insults of former allies? Firing somebody via Twitter was a classless act. Trump's management style may make for good reality TV shows, but the style does not translate well to real life. If he is elected, prospective administration members should think twice about accepting job offers. When you treat people who you hire badly, it makes it more difficult to hire good replacements for them.