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RandySF

(59,439 posts)
Fri Jan 12, 2018, 06:07 PM Jan 2018

White House Staff Couldnt Mute Conference Call

CBS News reports it took the White House twenty-two minutes to figure out how to enable the “listening only” feature on a conference call:

This White House can’t even run a fucking 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 fucking 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.


https://politicalwire.com/2018/01/12/white-house-staff-couldnt-mute-conference-call/
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White House Staff Couldnt Mute Conference Call (Original Post) RandySF Jan 2018 OP
Borowitz? The Onion? No? ProudLib72 Jan 2018 #1
Load of geniuses in the White House. bearsfootball516 Jan 2018 #2
Wonderful. Simply wonderful!!! longship Jan 2018 #3
Is this a joke? sarah FAILIN Jan 2018 #4
Its real RandySF Jan 2018 #7
He gets the best people. He delegates to the top talent, the cream of the crop. Mc Mike Jan 2018 #5
Technologically challenged. lpbk2713 Jan 2018 #6
Remember when they couldn't figure out how to turn the lights on? KelleyKramer Jan 2018 #8
These idiots are going to do themselves in by their own stupidity. GoCubsGo Jan 2018 #9
Ha ha ha. I had 5 conference calls for work today. Barack_America Jan 2018 #10

Mc Mike

(9,115 posts)
5. He gets the best people. He delegates to the top talent, the cream of the crop.
Fri Jan 12, 2018, 07:46 PM
Jan 2018

Then he micromanages them, demands excellence or they're fired.

They're the tops, and he's on top of it.

KelleyKramer

(8,985 posts)
8. Remember when they couldn't figure out how to turn the lights on?
Sat Jan 13, 2018, 12:16 AM
Jan 2018

At the beginning of the Trump admin, for months there were offices that were dark because no one could figure out how to turn the lights on

They are all clueless

I remember Stephen Colbert had some advice for everyone who works in the Trump WH ... "if you find a red button on the presidents desk, that does NOT turn the lights on!"


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