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Tariff caveat
Confidence 5/5
★★★★☆Fuckup rating 4/5
Serious fuckup
In a Sunday interview, Trump would not guarantee that the tariffs he wants on imports from Canada, Mexico, and China would avoid higher prices for American consumers. The hesitation punctured one of his favorite campaign promises — that he alone could bring inflation down while getting tougher on trade. It also gave critics a clean opening to argue that his tariff plan is just a tax on households dressed up as toughness.
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Revenge rhetoric
Confidence 5/5
★★★☆☆Fuckup rating 3/5
Major mess
The same interview that exposed Trump’s tariff wobble also featured another familiar Trump-world screwup: he again suggested that political rivals and officials who pursued cases against him should be imprisoned. Even if he later tries to wrap the threat in denials about wanting “vengeance,” the message is the message. It hands opponents a clean indictment of his law-and-order act as little more than selective revenge.
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