In a few hours, Donald Trump will announce what, if anything, he's going to do about the deal that blocks Iran from going nuclear for the time being. I wouldn't presume to guess what that announcement might be except that he will, of course, insist he's making the absolute right decision and that the world will be a lot safer because of him and we should all praise him for that.
This piece by Alex Ward explains why Trump hates the existing Iran deal. I'm sure everything Mr. Ward says is true but two other reasons occur to me, one being that Trump's campaign for the presidency was largely based on the premise that every single thing the Obama administration had done was wrong and stupid and terrible and in bad need of reversal. Much of what Trump has done in office seem to me to flow from a need to change what he condemned on the campaign trail even though he has no better plan or idea to put in place. Obamacare, he said time and again, was a disaster that had to go and he'd replace it with something better and cheaper that would cover more people…and so far, we haven't heard even the bare bones of a plan.
The second reason is closely related. In my career as a professional writer, I have often been courted by agents who wanted me to leave my guy and make them my guy. The pushiest ones were the ones I was least likely to consider and one of the things the pushiest ones all did was to tell me that I was robbed blind on every single deal my previous agents had made for me. It was like if you sold your old Honda Accord for $2000 — or about what comparable cars always went for — and I said, "My God! You got taken to the cleaners! If you'd let me sell it for you, I would have gotten you Fifty Thousand Dollars for that car!!!!" (To convey the hysteria in some of those pitches, I probably should have typed that in ALL CAPS and BOLDFACED ITALICS.)
Your sleaziest agents always seem to say that. No deal is any good if they didn't make it. Some of them even seem to believe their own bull or take it as some kind of personal incentive to promise you the moon plus several planets and then set themselves the goal of achieving it. They often do great damage to their clients because they're not satisfied to make you a good deal. They need, for their reputations and/or egos, to make you the best friggin' deal in the history of mankind. Nothing less will satisfy them, never mind satisfying you. Trump, who continually tells us that he's the greatest negotiator and deal-maker who ever lived, reminds me way too much of that kind of agent.