The Daily Fuckup — June 13, 2020

Edition · June 13, 2020

The Daily Fuckup — June 13, 2020

1 verified report published on June 13, 2020.

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Closing take

The pattern here is classic Trump: pick a fight with the calendar, pretend it was the plan, and then claim the retreat was actually a power move. On June 13, the campaign looked less like it was setting the agenda than scrambling to outrun the backlash it had invited on itself.

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Trump’s Tulsa Rally Date Collides With Juneteenth, Forcing a Rare Retreat

Juneteenth flop Confidence 5/5

★★★☆☆Fuckup rating 3/5 Major mess

Trump’s campaign spent June 13 cleaning up after choosing June 19 for a Tulsa rally, a date that landed on Juneteenth and immediately triggered backlash from Black leaders, Democrats, and civil-rights critics. The rally’s location added another layer of insult: Tulsa is the site of the 1921 massacre in Greenwood, making the event look less like political theater than a stress test for the campaign’s basic sense of history. Trump ultimately announced the rally would move to June 20, calling the change an act of respect after the criticism became too loud to ignore.

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