https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/msn/globalists-beware-steve-bannons-spirit-is-very-much-still-at-the-white-house/ar-BBKaPUUSteve Bannon is no longer at the White House, but nationalism is very much alive and well.
President Donald Trump is cleaning house and going with his nationalist gut now. Soon-former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and now-former top economic adviser Gary Cohn are the casualties. And the message should be clear.
What ties Tillerson, the former Exxon CEO, and Cohn, the former Goldman Sachs president, is globalism, or rather their advocacy for international agreements. Trump called them both out very specifically in his remarks about their respective departures.
Trump was kind to both men in wishing them well, but it was clear that their positions in favor of international communities would not abide in the Trump White House anymore.
Here's what Trump had to say about Tillerson when he talked to reporters on the White House lawn Tuesday.
"Rex and I have been talking about this for a long time," Trump said. "We got along, actually, quite well, but we disagree on things. When you look at the Iran deal, I think it's terrible. I guess he felt it was OK. I wanted to either break it or do something and he felt a little bit differently. So we were not thinking the same."
That Iran deal, by the way, a signature accomplishment of the Obama administration, was a multi-country agreement between Iran and Western nations in which Iran would agree to curb aspects of its nuclear program in exchange for the lifting of some sanctions.
How to remove the US from that deal even as Iran continues to abide by it has been a key foreign relations problem for Trump.
With Tillerson on his way out and CIA Director Mike Pompeo tapped to be the President's top diplomat, the future of the Iran deal probably gets a lot murkier.
After talking to reporters Tuesday morning, Trump hopped in Air Force One and jetted off to California, by the way, where he'll view prototypes for the southern border wall that would deliver on his signature campaign promise.
The wall promise, and his likely inability to make Mexico pay for it, has poisoned his relationship with the Mexican President, Enrique Peņa Nieto. Trump did exempt Mexico, for now, from his new steel and aluminum import tariffs, but he's made clear that if Canada and Mexico don't work to renegotiate NAFTA, he'll remove the US from that international deal, too...
