John Ganz

And then they have a terrible falling out, and he's saying all kinds of horrible things to them.

He speaks in a way that is guaranteed to make headlines, to stay in the news all the time, but it can't entirely be taken seriously.

He's a self-promoter extraordinaire.

There's a term called mere puffery in advertisement.

Like if you say it's the best coffee in the world, I can't sue them for false advertising because that's obviously just a piece of advertising rhetoric.

Trump's almost every word is essentially mere puffery.

Like that's his functional mode of discourse.

And so you can't really take any of his declarations seriously, which makes, I'm sure, doing diplomacy with him very hard or doing any kind of business with him at all very difficult and hard to get in.

And he's extremely unreliable.

I have a little schadenfreude, as I think many people do, as the Israelis having such a hard time with him and being so shocked.

What did you think?

Who did you think you were dealing with?

Yeah.

Oh, you thought you had the special key to his heart?

Give me a break.

I mean, oh, we're so friendly and he's so good to us.

He can change his mind at any moment.

He's dropped old friends.

He can drop some political ally when it doesn't seem like it's going his way.

Consistency is not his forte.