The Daily Fuckup

By late September 2021, Donald Trump was still trying to turn the Afghanistan withdrawal into a weapon against Joe Biden. The most explosive scenes from Kabul had already unfolded weeks earlier, in August, but the fallout was still moving through Washington. Trump and his allies kept arguing that Biden presided over humiliation and chaos. That line had bite because the evacuation was a disaster in public view. It also ran straight into a fact that could not be wished away: Trump’s own administration had negotiated the Doha Agreement with the Taliban in February 2020, setting a withdrawal framework that sharply limited the next president’s options. ([whitehouse.gov](https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/US-Withdrawal-from-Afghanistan.pdf?utm_source=openai))