Politics
March 13, 2018 / 1:24 PM / Updated 23 minutes ago
White House shakeup shows Trump tired of hearing 'no' for an answer
Jeff Mason, James Oliphant
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Almost 14 months into Donald Trump’s turbulent White House tenure, loyalists are in, dissenters are out and the president himself is acting on his own instincts more swiftly than ever to make decisions on policies from trade to North Korea.
People close to Trump said his firing on Tuesday of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was the latest sign of the Republican president’s growing impatience with his initial set of hand-picked advisers who he viewed as slow-walking his favored policies.
Trump will still encourage disagreement within his inner circle, these people said, but once he makes a decision, he wants it carried out swiftly.
“To this day, I think that a healthy ideological diversity prevails in the White House, but what has changed is that he is no longer willing to allow people to slow roll or stonewall his agenda,†said Andrew Surabian, a former White House strategist under Trump.“He wants people executing and getting things done.â€
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