"He loves his country. He puts Americans and America first. He’s smart," Tillerson said, reading pre-written remarks.
Tillerson later deflected, but did not deny, that he called Trump a moron. (A spokeswoman later denied he did.) The unusual scripted TV appearance followed Trump's public undercutting of Tillerson this week as "wasting his time" on North Korea.
It was enough to prompt Bob Inglis, a former South Carolina Republican congressman, to offer sympathy on Twitter: "Feel so sorry for Rex Tillerson. Like others in this Admin. he embarrasses himself by serving this President."
It's OnPolitics Today, the daily politics roundup from USA TODAY."In the months ahead, we will all have to wrestle with the horror that unfolded this week, but we will struggle through it together," Trump told first responders and survivors of Sunday's mass shooting in Las Vegas.
Trump, in his Wednesday visit, stayed mum on gun control policy. But that doesn't mean lawmakers did. Republicans, known to shun policy solutions in the wake of shootings, have shown interest in a gun-control bill aimed at banning "bump stock" rifle attachments, the legal devices that let Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock fire rapidly into a crowd of hundreds.
And because America is America, bump stocks are now flying off the shelves, per the Daily Caller.Before a hurricane leveled it last month, Puerto Rico was already in trouble: The U.S. territory owed $74 billion in debts and $49 billion in pension liabilities before filing for the equivalent of federal bankruptcy protection in May. The debt threatened Puerto Rico's ability to pay for public safety and health care. Now Trump is suggesting the island's debt should be wiped out. "You can say goodbye to that," Trump told Fox News.
Here are six reasons why Puerto Rico slid into such a financial crisis.
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