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'Rex, eat the salad': Trump once found a creative way to humiliate Tillerson

President Donald Trump fired Secretary of State Rex Tillerson with a tweet on Tuesday.

  • President Donald Trump fired Secretary of State Rex Tillerson with a tweet on Tuesday.
  • The president reportedly humiliated Tillerson in November 2017 by making him eat a wilted Caesar salad served in China.
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President Donald Trump reportedly found himself stuck between a rock and a hard place during a last November: eating a salad or offending the Chinese.

So he passed the buck to now-outgoing Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.

Trump, Tillerson, and other US officials were being served wilted Caesar salad in

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