A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
On December 6, 2019, Trump-world was still sinking under the Ukraine impeachment mess, and the House’s formal evidence handoff to Judiciary made that scandal harder to hand-wave away. The same day also brought fresh signs that Trump’s China trade posture was wobbling into a self-inflicted economic risk.
December 6, 2019 was one of those days when the Trump operation looked less like a governing team than a damage-control bunker. The House impeachment inquiry moved another step toward formal articles, and Trump’s own trade policy remained poised between bluster and backdown, with the December tariff decision hanging over markets and allies. Below are the strongest Trump-world screwups that landed or escalated on that date.
By this point, the pattern was the point: when Trump couldn’t dictate the story, he usually tried to bully it, and the result was more exposure, more uncertainty, and more evidence for his critics. The House was tightening the noose, the policy shop was projecting instability, and the whole operation kept turning short-term noise into long-term trouble.
5 stars means maximum fallout. 1 star means a smaller self-own.
House investigators formally transmitted their impeachment report and supporting materials to the Judiciary Committee on December 6, giving the next phase of the inquiry a more locked-in factual record and making it harder for Trump to dismiss the process as loose or improvised.
On December 6, Trump was still weighing whether to impose or delay the next round of China tariffs, a choice that had already become a self-made test of nerve for markets, businesses, and his own credibility.