Bird-flipping welcome for US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in New Zealand

I’ve always enjoyed the time I spent in New Zealand.

Maybe not as much as U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson​ when he arrived in Wellington.

US media travelling with Tillerson were surprised by the number of people flipping the bird at Tillerson as his motorcade sped through town.

New York Times correspondent Gardiner Harris said he had been in a lot of motorcades but even he was taken back by the negative reaction.

“I’ve been in motorcades for a couple of years now … I’ve never seen so many people flip the bird at an American motorcade as I saw today,” Harris said.

Harris wasn’t the only one who noticed – US protection officers travelling by with Tillerson were overheard joking about the “warm” Wellington welcome.

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