{"id":135051,"date":"2017-10-10T08:45:10","date_gmt":"2017-10-10T14:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=135051"},"modified":"2017-10-11T08:25:42","modified_gmt":"2017-10-11T14:25:42","slug":"trump-sure-hed-win-iq-test-tillerson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/10\/trump-sure-hed-win-iq-test-tillerson.html","title":{"rendered":"Trump is sure he&#8217;d win an IQ test against Tillerson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, I&#8217;d pay money to watch that one.<\/p>\n<p>On the other and, how smart can Tillerson actually be? He agreed to be (and has remained) Secretary of State for someone who has nothing but contempt for the State Dept.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p><a style=\"display: inline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2017\/10\/10\/trump-suggests-hed-top-tillerson-in-an-iq-test-after-moron-jab.html\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 650px;\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/l-mR34e4qdDB-KiMYv_dE0dR4lkbJkvf6bc-lXgyhjxPuR6oSLuRwl4Pc8CexT_u8YJzGWY9YZHTVAtBu8fU1lwE_ZnZzBL9Xjd_IZC2M74pGNCdjsgD5l4qdZ7RaF7jwWCt153s_qHPgfUJqy90aEabL3T4Bdu-2GlrbyElE5U3-m2JFbo3SWhy=w506-h910\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2017\/10\/10\/trump-suggests-hed-top-tillerson-in-an-iq-test-after-moron-jab.html\">Trump suggests he&#8217;d top Tillerson in an IQ test after &#8216;moron&#8217; jab<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nPresident Trump suggests a way to settle Rex Tillerson&#8217;s reported &#8220;moron&#8221; comment: an IQ test.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/9W3CWCUgS96\">View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, I&#8217;d pay money to watch that one. On the other and, how smart can Tillerson actually be? He agreed to be (and has remained) Secretary of State for someone who has nothing but contempt for the State Dept. Trump suggests he&#8217;d top Tillerson in an IQ test after &#8216;moron&#8217; jab President Trump suggests a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/10\/trump-sure-hed-win-iq-test-tillerson.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Trump is sure he&#8217;d win an IQ test against Tillerson&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135057,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,1071],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-trump"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Trump-smug.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":133745,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/28\/will-rex-tillerson-be-the-first-trump-secretary-to-bail.html","url_meta":{"origin":135051,"position":0},"title":"Will Rex Tillerson be the first Trump secretary to bail?","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 28-Jun-17 10:49pm","format":false,"excerpt":"We often read about how frustrating DC has been for Donald Trump, a free-wheeling CEO who is used to giving orders and having them executed, to suddenly find himself mired in politics and institutional restraints and checks and balances and all that folderol.But consider poor Rex Tillerson, a CEO of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":132288,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/13\/trump-picks-tillerson-for-secretary-of-state.html","url_meta":{"origin":135051,"position":1},"title":"Trump picks Tillerson for Secretary of State","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 13-Dec-16 4:27pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Rex Tillerson sounds like a CEO name, and he is in fact the Chairman and CEO of ExxonMobil. 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