What qualifies as a dumpster fire depends on who’s watching, but you tend know it when you see it.
But if forced to define it for someone not prone to hashtagging, you might quote Merriam-Webster:
Dumpster fire (noun, US informal): “an utterly calamitous or mismanaged situation or occurrence: disaster.”
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