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I hope he sticks to running facebook and his... charitable endeavors.

From my perspective the current inhabitant of the White House provides a fine illustration that "success" in the world of business does not necessarily translate into success or effectiveness in the world of public service and politics. This feeling has only been compounded by the likes and conduct of members of the current administration like Tillerson and Mnuchin.

Zuckerberg's demand not to be quoted after meeting and talking with people is a huge red flag to me, for example.

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To be honest, I'm no fan of oil company CEOs, but I have yet to see anything bad from Tillerson as secretary of state. He seems like a pretty normal secretary of state, and almost like the only sane guy in the administration.

His treatment of the press corps has been more or less abysmal, but he does seem to be one of the less destructive cabinet members.

Could you link to something? Would be interested in reading more, since I haven't seen this in the news.

http://thehill.com/policy/international/asia-pacific/323205-...

First link I found.

Oh geez, thanks for the link. I'd cut him some slack. I feel like if I was working under Trump I wouldn't be eagerly jumping in the middle of a crowd of reporters and telling them to throw questions at me in my first 2 months either. "One of the less destructive cabinet members" is quite an exaggeration for someone who's literally only had 2 months and the only bad thing you can think of is that he's run away from a few reporters. I'd be scrambling to get my crap together and figuring out what I'm supposed to do before worrying about answering to reporters about a job I just started. If there's any actual destructiveness on his part that he's refusing to talk about with reporters, that'd be much fairer of an assessment...

> From my perspective the current inhabitant of the White House provides a fine illustration that "success" in the world of business does not necessarily translate into success or effectiveness in the world of public service and politics.

The effect is the opposite. The current inhabitant of the White House proves to a whole slew of people that they too could become president, qualifications being irrelevant and the general feeling that they wouldn't do an even worse job of it.

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