"I alone can fix it."

A top Tillerson aide is quoted in the IJR article as saying the two men “get along like gin and vermouth”.

...In the interview published by IJR on Tuesday night, Tillerson said state department spending was unsustainable. He claimed he talked to the president on a daily basis but conceded he had not discussed with him what such a sharp decrease in funding would mean. “We haven’t gotten that far yet,” he said.