Trump’s 100-Day Of Oops

How incompetence became a governing strategy

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Picture, if you will, a White House transformed into a three-ring circus, where the clowns are in charge, the trapeze artists are blindfolded, and the ringmaster is distracted by a shiny new phone app called Doge.gov.

In just 100 days, the Trump administration has turned governance into a slapstick comedy of errors, a bureaucratic burlesque so absurd it could make a DMV clerk weep with laughter.

Let’s take a whirlwind tour through this carnival of chaos, where every misstep is a pratfall and every policy a pie in the face.

First up, the administration “accidentally canceled” funding for Ebola prevention, as put it with a shrug, like someone who just deleted a Netflix subscription instead of a global health initiative.

Whoops! Better luck next pandemic.

Meanwhile, they sent Harvard, an institution with more money than a dragon’s hoard, an “” list of demands.

Harvard, unimpressed, lawyered up faster than you can say “endowment fund,” leaving the administration to mutter, “We meant Yale.”

Over at the Veterans Crisis Line, job offers were rescinded due to an “administrative ,” which is government-speak for…