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[–] 19 points 12 hours ago (4 children)

Hanlon's razor has been getting an exceptional workout these days. It could just be that Trump is monumentally stupid and didn't think about this at all.

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  • [–] 19 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

    Trump is monumentally stupid, but that doesn't mean his Wormtongue-esque advisors are. Trump probably didn't know red-dyed diesel existed before this; he definitely didn't come up with the idea to let truckers use it himself.

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  • [–] 3 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

    During his first term I would consider this to be a more likely explanation, but second-term Trump has been doing a pretty good job of purging anyone with actual competence. He wasn't happy with how they kept telling him what to do last time around.

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