President-elect Donald Trump‘s choice for secretary of state checks off all the right boxes for Laura Ingraham.

“I think the Tillerson pick is frankly pretty genius,” the Fox News contributor said Tuesday on “Fox and Friends,” discussing Trump’s pick of ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson.

“He’s someone who is not ideological which frankly, right now in our foreign policy, I think is really important,” she explained.

“We have a lot of pragmatic decision to make in our foreign policy,” Ingraham continued. “both with the way that we deal with the Middle East, with China, and with Russia. The idea that these career politicians, some of them are really upset that Rex Tillerson hasn’t been a career diplomat. I think to myself, we’ve had a lot of career diplomats, and some of them have made catastrophic decisions and given advice that has frankly proven to be quite calamitous for the United States.”

It’s Official
Trump’s Pick
For Secretary Of State
?Rex Tillerson?
Exxon Mobile Executive #SecretaryOfState pic.twitter.com/0s6YcmjRb2

— EAGLE WINGS (@ConstanceQueen8) December 13, 2016

Rex Tillerson has more foreign policy experience than 90% of the politicians in Washington. Another proven business leader. #AllStarCabinet

— Jeremy Nolt (@RealJeremyNolt) December 13, 2016

Ingraham added that Tillerson, 64, has nothing to prove, having run a major oil corporation, and is familiar with almost every major country the U.S. will be dealing with diplomatically.

She blasted those criticizing Tillerson’s dealings with Russia, pointing out the left’s hypocrisy in not calling out President Obama for his negotiations with Iran.

“Knowing what we know about the Islamic Republic (of Iran), the largest state sponsor of terrorism, we’ve decided to trust them with this flawed Iran deal, ” Ingraham argued,  “and now Tillerson is the problem?

Where were all these Russophobes on the Left when we needed them in the Reagan Admin? @realDonaldTrump

— Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) December 13, 2016

I just want someone to look at me the way that Putin looks at Rex Tillerson pic.twitter.com/QmCgSgSvF9

— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) December 13, 2016

The thing I like best about Rex Tillerson is that he has vast experience at dealing successfully with all types of foreign governments.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 13, 2016

Ingraham concluded that Trump has had “excellent judgement” on his cabinet picks which have been “pretty impressive so far.”

Love how “career gov’t officials” criticize @realdonaldtrump Cabinet picks w/ vast experience in NOT screwing up domestic or int’l affairs

— Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) December 13, 2016

Many viewers agreed with Ingraham’s thoughts and voiced their opinions on Twitter.

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@foxandfriends @IngrahamAngle He won’t be bought;his perspective will be instrumental spreading democracy/capitalism:https://t.co/mhWEFkGBLK

— LittleCarrot (@littlecarrotq) December 13, 2016

@foxandfriends @IngrahamAngle My God finally we are going to get smart and commonsense into the govt. Listen up REP & DEMS we want results

— Loki Feather (@LokiFeather1) December 13, 2016

@foxandfriends @IngrahamAngle We need someone who can reorganize the state department. It has been turned into an ATM by crooked Democrats.

— Thomas Paine (@AnewThomasPaine) December 13, 2016

@foxandfriends @IngrahamAngle I agree. From both a diplomacy standpoint, as well as fixing the boated & inefficient State dept

— Brenda Cole (@bdc63) December 13, 2016

@foxandfriends @SebGorka @IngrahamAngle She’s dead on, again.

— Konamali (@Konamali1) December 13, 2016

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