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Tulsa backlash
Confidence 5/5
★★★★☆Fuckup rating 4/5
Serious fuckup
Trump’s plan to restart campaign rallies in Tulsa kept drawing fire on June 15 as critics argued the indoor event was a pandemic gamble and a racial provocation rolled into one. The campaign tried to dress the move up with masks, hand sanitizer, and warnings, but that did little to calm the sense that the White House had picked the worst possible moment and the worst possible place. By day’s end, the rally was less a comeback than a symbol of how badly Trump still misreads both public health and public memory.
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DACA humiliation
Confidence 4/5
★★★★☆Fuckup rating 4/5
Serious fuckup
The Supreme Court’s DACA ruling continued to haunt the administration on June 15 as Trump officials tried to keep the White House from absorbing the full political damage. The decision had blocked the effort to end the program in its chosen form, and the administration was left with the unhelpful task of pretending a major defeat was some kind of strategic pause. The bigger screwup was the same one that got Trump here in the first place: making immigration policy by blunt-force tweet and then hoping the courts would bless the mess.
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