‘Inept, incompetent, craven’: Scott Bessent struggles to clean up the president’s mess

‘Inept, incompetent, craven’: Scott Bessent struggles to clean up the president’s mess - short news


There’s little optimism about treasury secretary’s ability to handle Trump’s tariffs, Iran sanctions and colossal US debt

History remembers Gen Dwight Eisenhower, the supreme commander of the allied forces in Europe during the second world war, for his role in the D-day invasion of Normandy. Whether Scott Bessent will achieve similar posterity as the face of the “economic D-day” in Iran remains to be seen.

The US treasury secretary, already trying to manage a $40tn..


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source: The Guardian - 29.08.2026

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