President Trump should start listening to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson or fire him.

That doesn’t mean Trump should do whatever Tillerson suggests, but Trump’s present approach towards his foreign policy chief is pointless. With the two men sniping at each other, the secretary of state’s office has become a joke. Trump doesn’t appear to care what Tillerson thinks about global politics, and then openly mocks his diplomatic endeavors. This renders absurd Trump’s campaign pledge to hire the best people and then unleash them to get the nation’s work done. By appointing a cabinet secretary that he uses as a whipping horse, Trump suggests that his only counsel comes from the mirror. This is not a good thing.