United States President Trump dismisses Secretary of State Tillerson

March 13, 2018 United States President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday, that will no longer serve as the. Trump will nominate, the current CIA director as Tillerson's successor, and  will be nominated to replace Pompeo. The Secretary of State is the U.S. equivalent of a in most other countries.

Trump first made the announcement in an early morning tweet at 5:43 AM. The said in a statement, Tillerson "did not speak to the President and is unaware of the reason" for his dismissal from office.

The President spoke to the press on the of the White House later on Tuesday, saying "I've worked with Mike Pompeo now for quite some time. Tremendous energy, tremendous intellect. We're always on the same wavelength. The relationship has always been very good and that's what I need as Secretary of State."

Trump wished Tillerson well, adding that "Rex and I have been talking about this for a long time. We — we got along actually quite well, but we disagreed on things," continued the President. "When you look at the, I think it's terrible. I guess he thought it was OK. I wanted to either break it or do something, and he felt a little bit differently."

According to NBC News and Reuters, there have been months of disagreements between Trump and Tillerson leading up to the dismissal.