The Daily Fuckup — June 7, 2019

Edition · June 7, 2019

The Daily Fuckup — June 7, 2019

1 verified report published on June 7, 2019.

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Closing take

June 7 was one of those days when the Trump brand’s favorite governing method — threaten big, blow up relationships, then declare victory if the other side helps mop up the mess — looked less like leverage than chaos. The Mexico tariff reversal stopped the immediate economic hit, but it did not erase the fact that the White House had turned a border dispute into a broadside against U.S. businesses and consumers. The screwup was the mess itself: the threat, the panic, the reversal, and the lingering question of why the country keeps getting dragged into these improvisational brinksmanship drills in the first place.

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Trump’s Mexico tariff stunt ends in a late-night retreat

Tariff retreat Confidence 5/5

★★★★☆Fuckup rating 4/5 Serious fuckup

Trump’s threat to impose tariffs on all Mexican imports blew up into a fast-moving economic and diplomatic mess before ending in a Friday-night suspension after a migration deal with Mexico. Business groups, lawmakers, and trade-dependent industries had spent the week warning that the plan would raise costs and wreck supply chains, and the walk-back only underscored how recklessly the White House had used tariffs as a bargaining chip.

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