The Daily Fuckup

Closing take

The through line on February 20 was simple: Trump’s orbit kept creating or inheriting crises faster than it could control them. On guns, the White House looked trapped between angry survivors, spooked Republicans, and a policy menu that kept collapsing under its own politics. On Russia, the legal weather never cleared. That combination — defensive, improvisational, and perpetually one step behind — is the sort of thing that turns a bad news cycle into a governing pattern.