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Trump and Tillerson: Strange bedfellows, it shouldn’t have lasted a year

After cutting short his Africa tour, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson boards his plane at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport,Nairobi, on March 12, 2018. [AFP /Standard]

When President Donald Trump decided last year to hire Texas oilman Rex Tillerson as his secretary of state, the Washington foreign policy establishment thought it knew what to expect.

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