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Trump kept telling the world America was back. On July 6, the evidence looked more like America was improvising, and the people charged with keeping the lights on inside government were getting tired of waiting for adults to show up.
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Walter Shaub’s resignation from the Office of Government Ethics on July 6 was less a surprise than a formal acknowledgment that the White House had turned ethics enforcement into a dead letter. Shaub said he had little more he could accomplish in the current situation, and his exit instantly became a symbol of how little the administration seemed willing to treat conflicts of interest as a governing problem rather than a nuisance.
Trump’s July 6 speech in Warsaw was meant to project strength, but it also underscored how readily he turns foreign policy into identity theater. The address framed the West as a civilization under siege and leaned on broad, loaded language about culture, faith, and survival that critics heard as a flirtation with nationalist grievance rather than sober statecraft.