John Ganz

He was talked into this very simplistic idea of it.

And when it turned out to be a lot tougher than he was led to believe, he decided to walk away.

And he's just basically pulling out of what he feels is a bad deal and trying to enter into a new deal with Iran, who now he praises as reasonable people and before they were lunatics and so on and so forth.

If you go back to the way he behaved in New York City and the way he carried on business deals and he carried on his behavior with politicians trying to get those deals across, it was always like this.

It was a lot of recriminations, huge statements that he would never work for somebody.

This guy was crazy.

He was a lunatic.

He was the worst.

And then the next week he's trying to make buddy-buddy or vice versa.

He has a close relationship, working relationship with somebody.

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.