Trump’s Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has told career diplomats in his own department not to make eye contact with him, a new report claims.

Tillerson has remained remote from both Trump’s administration and his own department, according to the Washington Post – with many diplomats not having met him.

Others have been instructed not to speak to him directly, or even make eye contact with him, as Tillerson confers with a circle of political aides who he has brought into the State Department.

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Tillerson previously raised eyebrows by bringing only one journalist with him on a trip to Asia – from Independent Journal Review, an outlet described as ‘Buzzfeed for conservatives’.

Not bringing press on a trip like that is unusual & insulting to any American who is looking for anything but a state-run version of events — Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) March 9, 2017





Tillerson said that he was, ‘not a big media press access person.’

He claims that, with only one journalist, his plane, ‘flies faster, allows me to be more efficient’.