Bureaucrats Are Trying To ‘Subvert’ The Trump Administration, Former Adviser Alleges
During an appearance on the "Joe Rogan Experience" podcast released Friday, a former adviser to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. alleged bureaucrats are trying to sabotage President Donald Trump's administration.
Spencer Lombardo · Nov 8, 2026 · 3 min read

During an appearance on the “Joe Rogan Experience” podcast released Friday, a former adviser to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. alleged bureaucrats are trying to sabotage President Donald Trump’s administration.
“He’s [Kennedy] got a 90,000-person agency. He’s surrounded by demons who want him out and want him destroyed,” former Kennedy adviser Calley Means told Joe Rogan. “And Trump’s sitting at 2 million people.”
“So, his staff is all completely compromised?” Rogan asked.
“Yeah, for the most … especially the whole infrastructure,” Means, who resigned from the White House on Oct. 22, claimed.
The White House did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.
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“They were sending around a memo — a CIA manual — about how to be a bad bureaucrat and subvert an institution from within,” Means continued. “That’s, like, sent around by all the career officials. They hate President Trump.”
The Central Intelligence Agency’s precursor, the Office of Strategic Services, disseminated the “Simple Sabotage Field Manual” — which instructed managers to discriminate against efficient workers, give undeserved promotions, and needlessly refer tasks to large committees — behind enemy lines during World War II.
“I’m not making excuses for anyone, but it’s, like, kind of crazy, right? Like, what the hell do I do? This is an unruly government and the president has orders of magnitude more than that,” Means said.




