He said it had been more than three hours between the announcement he was going and Trump speaking to him from Air Force One 

Made no tribute to Trump and offered him no thanks as he said he was returning to private life 

Dramatic morning tweet by the president announced that Rex Tillerson has been fired as Secretary of State and replaced by CIA director Mike Pompeo

Tillerson's last act was to blame Russia for the poisoning of its former spy Sergei Skripal at a British pizza restaurant – something White House had not done 

Tillerson, the former boss of Exxon Mobil, had just been on a trip to Africa and was last seen boarding his Air Force place on Monday  

Gina Haspel becomes first ever women to be Director of the CIA after clandestine career and involvement in 'black sites' 

Tillerson had disagreed with Trump on Iran and North Korea, the president said – but he had also been reported to have called the president a 'f***ing moron'