Officials Say Public Has Lost Faith in Institutions, Which Is Rude

Officials say years of secrecy, corruption, incompetence, and selective rule enforcement hardly justify the public’s increasingly negative tone.

Federal officials expressed disappointment Tuesday after learning that the American public had lost faith in major institutions, describing the development as “hurtful, unnecessary, and honestly a little rude.”

Fancy Pants received the statement during a briefing where leaders from Congress, the courts, federal agencies, universities, banks, media compan…