Trump’s superpower, unpredictability, has given way to unreliability ^93.6%

The Japan Times - By Stephen R. Nagy - 5/13/2026, 2:00 AM

Ambiguity (Equivocation) 71% - Hasty Generalization 51.1% - Framing Effect 38.9%

When U.S. President Donald Trump served Chinese leader Xi Jinping chocolate cake at Mar-a-Lago in 2017 while casually informing his guest that the United States had just launched 59 Tomahawk missiles into Syria, it captured something fundamental to his approach to foreign policy: unpredictability. What kind of leader conducts diplomacy... more