Twice in two days last weekend, President Trump did something that has become a trademark of his presidency: He openly contradicted top officials in his administration. After U.S. Trade Representative Robert E. Lighthizer said that March 1 was a “hard deadline” for reaching a trade deal with China, Trump extended the talk deadline. And in the Oval Office, he contradicted Lighthizer in front of Chinese officials on something else: the meaning of “memoranda of understanding,” or MOU. Trump planned to pull all U.S. troops out of Syria immediately. “The evidence of human-caused climate change is overwhelming,” the administration reported in November.

Source: Washington Post February 26, 2019 20:17 UTC