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Tillerson Tell-All Book Due Out Next Week

Hasty publication of “The Moron and The Magnate” suggests that Tillerson’s scathing Trump chronicle was completed months ago

Allan Ishac
2 min readMar 14, 2018

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Rex Tillerson isn’t wasting any time criticizing a president he thinks is uninformed and laughable. (Credit: thenation.com)

Rex Tillerson, who was fired from his job as Secretary of State by President Donald Trump only yesterday, will release a tell-all book as early as next week, sources say.

Titled “The Moron and The Magnate,” the detailed chronicle of Mr. Tillerson’s time in Donald Trump’s cabinet, to be released by HarperCollins, is said to be a brutal takedown of the president and his administration by the former Exxon oil CEO.

The publication of the merciless account just days after his departure on Monday suggests that the former Sec. of State may have had the scathing Trump chronicle written and completed months ago. Mr. Tillerson and Mr. Trump have had a contentious relationship almost from the start, and the Sec. of State has been ridiculed many times by the president, sometimes publicly and often in a humiliating fashion. His dismissal was not unexpected.

The title of the book appears to be a reference to a well-known incident that occurred last July when Mr. Tillerson reportedly called the president a “fucking moron” after a Pentagon meeting. His time…

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Allan Ishac

Author of The Mystic In The Mews (themysticinthemews.com). Satirist. Humor writer. Former advertising creative director. Visit me at allanishac.com.