I’m never quite sure what to make of stories like this.

On the one hand, it’s admirable to take a stand, but on the other hand, the stand implies that Trump’s decisions before this were acceptably sound, but this one passed some threshold making it unacceptably unsound.

The obvious reality is that Trump’s decisions barely even count as decisions, and can’t really be judged as eirher sound or unsound

Instead, they’re just the whims and obsessions of a delusional narcissist with the emotional maturity and attention span of a toddler, and the degree to which they might provide some benefit or serve some national interest is effectively random, since those are considerations of which Trump isn’t even capable. There’s barely room for anyone or anything else at all in Trump’s pathologically egocentric universe, and the degree to which other people and institutions exist at all to him is almost entirely just the degree to which they manage to threaten or soothe his ego.

So it’s sort of like watching a blindfolded drunk firing a gun into a crowd and just nodding along complacently as long as he doesn’t hit anybody, then only when he does hit somebody saying, “Hey now - wait a minute! We can’t be having any of that!”