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Twitter Loses It Over Report Rex Tillerson Doesn't Allow Eye Contact

"Working theory: Rex Tillerson is a Medusa."
Ed Mazza
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Overnight Editor, HuffPost

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A report in the Washington Post about Rex Tillerson caused a flurry of speculation on Twitter that the secretary of state may be a vampire, a basilisk or perhaps even Medusa.

The Post reported that some career diplomats working under Tillerson “have been instructed not to speak to him directly ― or even make eye contact.” The report also said career State Department workers “swap paranoid stories about Tillerson that often turn out to be untrue,” so the veracity of the forbidden eye contact rule is unclear.

But that little tidbit caused Tillerson’s name to trend on Twitter late Thursday with more than 20,000 tweets weighing in, and many were wondering just what was up with America’s top diplomat.

Here’s a sampling:

A report in the Washington Post says some people who work for Secretary of State Rex Tillerson have been told not to make eye contact with him.
A report in the Washington Post says some people who work for Secretary of State Rex Tillerson have been told not to make eye contact with him.
Joshua Roberts / Reuters

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