'Trump is undisciplined, acts on his instincts': Former US secretary of state Rex Tillerson

Former US secretary of state Rex Tillerson says that President Donald Trump repeatedly wanted to violate law, describing him as "undisciplined" and uninterested in details. 

Tillerson, who was fired in March, me attempt to deny his poor relationship with Trump during a rare interview on Thursday night as part of a charity dinner in his native Texas. 

"I think part of it was obvious we are starkly different in our styles. We did t have a common value system," Tillerson told veteran journalist Bob Schieffer of CBS News. 

"I'd have to say to him, 'Well, Mr President, I understand what you want to do, but you can't do it that way -- it violates law, it violates a treaty.' 

"He got really frustrated," he said. "I think he grew tired  of me being guy every day that told him you can't do that and let's talk about what we can do." 

Tillerson, a former chief executive of oil giant ExxonMobil, h government experience and h never met Trump when his mination was promoted by Republican Party insiders, who hoped for a stable figure who could neless appeal to tycoon-turned-president with his outsider status and business background. 

Tillerson immediately struggled to fit in, focusing on internal state department streamlining rar than foreign policy goals as his relationship frayed with Trump.

"It was challenging for me coming from disciplined, highly process-oriented ExxonMobil Corp to go to work for a man who is pretty undisciplined, doesn't like to re, doesn't re briefing reports, doesn't like to get into details of a lot of things," Tillerson said. 

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Trump is proudly anti-intellectual, saying that he succeeds by following his instincts and kws better than experts. Asked about his reing habits in an interview shortly after taking office, Trump said he was "looking at a book" but was distracted by phone calls every time he tried to get started.

Trump's most visible foreign policy actions include pulling out of international agreements including Paris accord on climate change and a denuclearization deal with Iran. 

Trump anunced Tillerson's firing by tweet and, in a final indignity, White House me it kwn that nation's top diplomat was on toilet when he learned news. 

He was replaced by Mike Pompeo, a brusque former congressman and CIA chief whose style appears more to Trump's liking. 

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