you're right this is a decision that got made because the president was angry and backed into a corner. there's this conflict within trump. this is something he has always been clear about. his protectionism on trade was something he sold to voters in those states that he won, those rust belt states. so this is sort of where donald trump has always wanted to go with the breakdown and the process in the white house of late around guns and around trade. you've seen the people who wanted him to go in this direction kind of have their way and there was no place for cohen and those others to come in and sort of put the guardrails on. i think the conflict inside donald trump is not just that he's a protectionist on trade deep down and wants to do this and show strength, wants to foment a trade war, tweeting about it, using the words trade war. but the conflict is this is a president who wants to be liked, who wants to be lauded. when "the wall street journal," when republican allies on capitol hill almost all of them