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Powerful people live in Washington DC, a big compromise city stuck in between the states of Virginia and Maryland. It is the capital of the United States and the political nerve centre for the Conceptual West and so whatever happens in it attracts wide global attention, even if it is mundane. Holders of particular offices, especially secretaries of state, wield power that makes them dominant on the world stage.
Presidents do not humiliate the secretary of state through the un-ceremonial path of public firing, but Donald Trump is not usual. He did it to oil man Rex Tillerson, then in Nairobi on mission to sell the American agenda to skeptical audiences that were still smarting over Trump’s foul language.
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