# The Trump Administration: A Clusterfuck in the Making

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**Created:** [December 7, 2016, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070 "2016-12-07T00:25:42Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 6, 2018, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/15004 "2018-01-06T00:55:46Z")

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> [@ThelmaLou](#):
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> What I read (sorry, I’ve read so many articles, I can’t remember where) was that Wolff just hung around and since no one was really in charge, no one asked him to leave or indeed asked him WTF he was doing there. Did anyone else read something to that effect?

Supposedly Bannon signed him in some days. Some days, he reportedly had a higher clearance–the ‘blue pass’–than any other reporter. (I’m not seeing that in a reputable story–just in tweets and on message boards, so no link yet.)

The entire thing came about, apparently, because of an Accident of Graphics: Wolff wrote a not-very-positive story on Trump that was published in June 2016 in _The Hollywood Reporter_. But the cover made Trump look “cool,” or so Hope Hicks thought:

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> I interviewed Donald Trump for The Hollywood Reporter in June 2016, and he seemed to have liked — or not disliked — the piece I wrote. “Great cover!” his press assistant, Hope Hicks, emailed me after it came out (it was a picture of a belligerent Trump in mirrored sunglasses).

> **[“You Can’t Make This S— Up”: My Year Inside Trump’s Insane White House](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/michael-wolff-my-insane-year-inside-trumps-white-house-1071504/)**
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> Author and columnist Michael Wolff was given extraordinary access to the Trump administration and now details the feuds, the fights and the alarming chaos he witnessed while reporting what turned into a new book.

I don’t see the cover itself on the Hollywood Reporter site, so here it is:

[https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/sites/default/files/custom/trumpconversation.jpg](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/sites/default/files/custom/trumpconversation.jpg)  
…if the cover artist had depicted Trump as a buffoon–to match the tenor of the actual story–then Wolff would never have gotten his pass to the White House. Because, of course, neither Hope Hicks, nor Trump, actually read the story. But since the cover made Trump look ‘cool,’ _Hicks and Trump assumed that anything Wolff wrote, or might write, would also make Trump look ‘cool.’_

Thus the importance of the graphic arts in world history.

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