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George Conway Explains It All (To Sarah Longwell)

Trump’s Administration Is a Incompetent Mess

George Conway Explains It All (To Sarah Longwell)

The Bulwark

News, Politics, Society & Culture

4.82.8K Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Mass firings, illegal freezes, and unhinged governance—Conway & Longwell discuss why Trump’s administration is a complete disaster.

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0:00.0

This is the Dunning Kruger administration because the effect permeates the administration from the top down.

0:07.0

Because the dumbest one of all is the one is the guy with the orange face who has no freaking idea.

0:12.3

Plus, it's crazy.

0:17.5

Hello, everyone. Welcome to George Conway, explains it all to Sarah. I'm Sarah Longwell,

0:22.9

publisher of the bulwark. And because I'm not a lawyer, I'm my good friend, George Conway,

0:26.7

to explain the legal news to me. Hey, George. Illegal news, not legal news, illegal news. I mean,

0:34.1

the strategy is to be illegal and pretend to be illegal. That is the strategy of the new Dunning Kruger administration.

0:42.8

How? Can you explain to me? Yes. Can you explain to me? What is happening right now?

0:51.2

You mean W. It's basically the W-T-F question. Yeah, but I guess, and so obviously

0:58.2

there's so many fronts, but I'll start with the, the, what do you know about these, the OPM and

1:04.3

OMB, and they're just like offering people, not buyouts, buyouts, is a misnomer. They're basically

1:10.5

just like, you know, we're going to pay. Inomer they're basically just like you know we're

1:11.5

they're they're kind of it's a combination of project 2025 and shit coming out of

1:18.7

Elon Musk's ass yeah just forgive my language I mean they're just making it up as as they go along

1:25.0

and OPM I mean they just bait, they're, the buyouts don't

1:30.5

really work if you talk to any federal employer employer, employer. They're not really buyouts.

1:38.6

They're basically saying, hey, if you tell us to resign, you know, effective this fall, you can not come to work and hang out.

1:48.8

And maybe you can do stuff for us.

1:51.3

And then you get your seven months.

1:53.5

They don't have to do very much.

1:54.6

And so that's, you know, that's supposed to be severance that they pay.

2:00.3

But they can't really authorize severance, which is why they're

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