Rex Tillerson Is on a Lonely Mission to Defend Donald Trump's Jerusalem Pronouncement

Dec 07, 2017, 01:17 PM

(BRUSSELS) — It's a go-to catchphrase when U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is called on to explain his boss on the world stage: "America first is not America alone." Yet as President Donald Trump declared Jerusalem the capital of Israel, Tillerson on Wednesday stood all by himself.

The onslaught came from all sides as Tillerson, at NATO headquarters in Brussels, got an earful from many a U.S. ally on Trump's Jerusalem move.