Tag: Trump Administration
Taibbi: Administration a Series of ‘Spasmodic Trump Failures’
“Some see in all these maneuverings an effort to purge GOP loyalists like Spicer and Priebus. Others see a Nixonian lunge to hire thugs in a crisis. This to me is all overthinking things. There is no strategy. This White House is just a succession of spasmodic Trump failures, with a growing line of people taking the fall for each of them. You can fall with honor, or without, entertainingly or not. But if you join this White House, fall you will. It’s only a matter of time.”
— Matt Taibbi
Majority Says White House in Chaos
60%
A new Politico/Morning Consult poll finds 60% of Americans say the Trump administration is running somewhat or very chaotically, compared to only 33% who say it is running well. The survey was conducted entirely prior to the ouster of Anthony Scaramucci as White House communications director, and was already in the field when Reince Priebus left the chief of staff position.
Too Much ‘Mooch’
So ends the White House career of Anthony Scaramucci,
A communicator who couldn’t keep his mouth shut, could he?
Gone is the polish and the pomade,
Gone are the expletive-laced tirades.
O, misguided little “Mooch,” we hardly knew ye!
GOP Congressman Doesn’t Care What Trump Administration Does
“I don’t even pay any attention to what is going on with the administration because I don’t care. They’re a distraction. The family is a distraction, the president is a distraction. At first, it was ‘Well yeah, this is the guy we elected. He’ll learn, he’ll learn.’ And you just don’t see that happening.”
— Rep. Mike Simpson (R-ID), quoted by Politico.
Trump Orders Government to Stop Work on Y2K Bug, 17 Years Later
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Seventeen years after the Year 2000 bug came and went, the federal government will finally stop preparing for it, Bloomberg reports. The Trump administration announced Thursday that it would eliminate dozens of paperwork requirements for federal agencies, including an obscure rule that requires them to continue providing updates on their preparedness for a bug that afflicted some computers at the turn of the century.
Trump at 100
“The hundred-day marker is never an entirely reliable indicator of a four-year term, but it’s worth remembering that Franklin Roosevelt and Barack Obama were among those who came to office at a moment of national crisis and had the discipline, the preparation, and the rigor to set an entirely new course. Impulsive, egocentric, and mendacious, Trump has, in the same span, set fire to the integrity of his office.”
— David Remnick
Sean, Lamb of Trump
In another administration Sean Spicer would have been fired.
But he’s actually just what the Trump White House required.
He’s a stand-up white guy,
Who will stand there and lie and lie,
And for that trait — at least in Trumplandia — he’s admired.
