The big Donald Trump news of the past twenty-four hours isn’t the fact that he’s nominating Rex Tillerson, the chief executive of ExxonMobil, to be Secretary of State. We’ve known for a few days that was coming, just as we knew that Rick Perry, the former governor of Texas, was the favorite to be Trump’s choice as Energy Secretary. (This despite the fact that, in 2012, when Perry ran for President, he wanted to abolish the department.) And, no, I’m also not referring to Kanye West’s visit to Trump Tower, which sent social media into a frenzy.
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Published on December 13, 2016 14:50