Edition · December 20, 2017
The Daily Fuckup — December 20, 2017
1 verified report published on December 20, 2017.
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Closing take
December 20 gave Trump another lesson he never seems eager to learn: coercion is not strategy, and bluster is not leverage. When you try to buy silence with taxpayer money, people tend to call it what it is.
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Jerusalem bullying
Confidence 5/5
★★★★☆Fuckup rating 4/5
Serious fuckup
Trump threatened to cut U.S. aid to countries that backed a U.N. resolution rejecting his Jerusalem decision, turning a diplomatic fight into a blatant pressure campaign. The move drew immediate criticism and appeared to harden opposition instead of peeling countries away.
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