"This White House can't even run a f*cking conference call."

I can't stop laughing at @jaxalemany's write up of a White House conference call gone wrong: https://t.co/pt1HSUboRb pic.twitter.com/LvzMpFMyCa

— Sopan Deb (@SopanDeb) January 12, 2018

Courtesy of CBS News:  

It took the White House 22 minutes to figure out how to enable the "listening only" feature on a conference call on Thursday in which senior administration officials announced that President Trump would continue to waive nuclear program-related sanctions, keeping the deal intact. 

"This White House can't even run a f*cking conference call," a reporter on an unmuted phone line angrily exclaimed to the entire call. "They don't know how to mute their line." 

"It's the illegitimate media that doesn't know how to conduct themselves. They can't mute their f*cking phones," an unidentified official said. "Mute your phones." 

Another White House official repeatedly attempted to quiet the noisy line "so the people in charge" could talk. 

"I think if everyone had half a brain and common sense and muted their phones, this wouldn't be a problem," she yelled in an apparent fit of frustration. 

"Hello? Hello?," one reporter interjected, some 15 minutes after the slated start of the call. "Has the call started?" 

"This is Kim Jong Un calling for Donald Trump," another reporter joked as tensions flared. 

"All participants are now in listen-only mode," the operator finally announced, much to the relief of everyone on the call. The call began at 1:07 p.m. 

A State Department official announced at the end of the call that the technical difficulties prevented the senior administration officials from taking any questions from reporters. 

This may seem like a minor thing in the great scheme of things, but in fact it is indicative of the entire Trump White House operation. 

You may even remember that in the first months of the Trump presidency they were having meetings in the dark because they could not figure out how to turn the lights on in the White House. 

This may be the most incompetent administration in American history.

Once again, thank you deplorables.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson continues to gut the State Department.

Remember who you work for.

Courtesy of Raw Story: 

According to a Friday night report in the The New York Times, Tillerson has not only frozen hiring and failed to nominate people to the majority of the department’s politically-appointed positions — he’s also engaged in what appears to be an intentional campaign to push out as many career diplomats as possible. 

“[Tillerson’s] small cadre of aides have fired some diplomats and gotten others to resign by refusing them the assignments they wanted or taking away their duties altogether,” the Times report states. “Among those fired or sidelined were most of the top African-American and Latino diplomats, as well as many women, difficult losses in a department that has long struggled with diversity.” 

Among the methods used to push out senior diplomats is by forcing them to undertake menial tasks under Tillerson’s presidentially-directed order to accelerate Freedom of Information Act requests (which are currently backlogged). The task has required every department in the bureau to contribute. As a result, “midlevel employees and diplomats — including some just returning from high-level or difficult overseas assignments — to spend months performing mind-numbing clerical functions beside unpaid interns.” 

“The United States is at the center of every crisis around the world, and you simply cannot be effective if you don’t have assistant secretaries and ambassadors in place,” R. Nicholas Burns, a retired career diplomat who served as under secretary of state during George W. Bush’s adminsitration, told the Times. “It shows a disdain for diplomacy.” 

The report notes that Tillerson still has not nominated an assistant secretary for East Asia or an amabssador to South Korea — two positions that are integral to finding a diplomatic solution to President Donald Trump’s continually escalating feud with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.

One former ambassador said that either the Trump Administration does not believe that America should continue to be a world leader or else they are simply incompetent.

Or else they could simply be doing exactly what their Russian puppet masters have directed them to do.

Well let's see, shall we?

I swear it is like Trump spent the last several years tweeting about his own presidency, without even knowing it.