He makes the best deals

The president* has decided to play with matches again. There are very few things that would touch off the situation in the Middle East. Moving the American embassy to Jerusalem, thereby implicitly acknowledging the, ahem, controversial notion that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel, is almost universally recognized as being one of these. So, the president* has found a lovely pool of shiny gasoline into which he can’t resist tossing a match—or a Tiki torch, for all that.

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People who believe that the president* is a dealmaking genius—or, more precisely, the people who are paid to tell him they believe it—likely will see this move as a clever ploy to shock both sides into serious negotiations. Sensible people, however, will see this move as a man who fingerpaints with botulism.

  Charles P Pierce

I guess it never occurred to me that it might be a clever ploy.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.