text: Have you ever played chess?  This may not make much sense but stick with me a bit.  You know how sometimes it can feel pretty bad when you lose your queen?  It doesn't help when your opponent lords it over you or any spectator makes comments about it.  Chess is like politics in some ways.  It's about the long game.  If you focus on protecting your queen instead of how best to use or lose it your attention is divided and you set yourself up for a loss.  This EO from Trump is just like that.  His administration was so focused on not feeling bad it lost all sight of the long game.
  
  Trump is the only one at the table who has control over the US's pieces of international "chess."  His conduct demonstrates he is only looking a move or two ahead.  I just hope he learns from this mistake.  But given his attitude towards the press, his disregard for disagreement even from his own appointees and his blind adulating supporters who can see no wrong I expect that hope is in vain.