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EPA cleanup
Confidence 5/5
★★★★☆Fuckup rating 4/5
Serious fuckup
Scott Pruitt’s resignation, accepted by Trump on July 5 and still dominating the fallout on July 6, was the clearest sign yet that the EPA chief’s scandal pile had become too heavy to carry. The resignation capped months of ethics questions, investigations, and public outrage over spending, perks, and favoritism. Even Trump’s effort to spin it as a routine personnel move could not hide that the administration had spent a year defending the indefensible.
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Tariff backlash
Confidence 5/5
★★★★☆Fuckup rating 4/5
Serious fuckup
The administration’s first $34 billion round of tariffs on Chinese goods took effect on July 6, and Beijing immediately matched it with retaliatory duties of its own. What Trump sold as leverage looked, on day one, a lot more like the opening shot in a trade war that could boomerang onto U.S. farmers, manufacturers, and consumers. The president had spent weeks signaling he wanted a bigger fight; Friday showed he got one.
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