Trump sacks Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and nominates the director of the CIA, Mike Pompeo, as the new Secretary of State if confirmed. Tillerson was seen by many people to “contain” the inexperienced current president along with Chief of Staff, John Kelly. The fire of Tillerson might have been caused by the long-time disagreement between Tillerson and Trump; once Tillerson left the house, Trump would become freer to follow his own thoughts, such as his trade policies. Previously Trump announced that he wanted increases in tariffs on steel and aluminium for all foreign countries; however, under the pressure within and outside his Party and office, Trump was forced to mitigate his tone and allowed exceptions for friendly countries. Since Tillerson left the office, in the future, Trump is likely to face less pressure from opposition, especially the pressure coming from his own people. Trump is inexperienced so he does not follow the rules that ordinary politicians follow, he is able to use the presidential power upon the limit, just like the time when he sacked the former FBI director, that a president has the power to sack the FBI director but most presidents do not want to do that since it could raise the concern of obstruction of justice; however, Trump will not care about such concern. When Trump looses one of his chains, he will be easier to promote his deglobalisation plan and pull the US out of many global systems, and he has already successfully pulled the US out of the Paris Agreement. In the future, I think it is almost certain there would be some degree of trade war, the degree will depend on how countries increase tariffs on each other.
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