Because when it comes to Trump, a deal isn’t a deal — it’s just words he feels free to ignore a few days later. Sign Up You agree to receive occasional updates and special offers for The New York Times's products and services. Basically, then, the government of the world’s greatest nation is lurching from crisis to crisis because its leader can’t be trusted to honor a deal. The result is that promises from the U.S. government are now as worthless as those from a tinpot dictator. We don’t yet know how high a price we’ll pay for that loss of credibility, but it probably won’t be small.

Source: New York Times January 22, 2018 22:52 UTC