Key foreign policy decisions in the United States are made without the participation of the head of state. He can, at best, learn about this from TV news. This is exactly what happened in the case of the introduction of new sanctions against Russia because of the situation in Syria. "On Sunday, Trump watched television and heard the statement of US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley that the president plans to introduce new sanctions against Russia," wrote The New York Times referring to sources in the White House. According to eyewitnesses, such unexpected news plunged the head of state into such anger that he shouted at an innocent TV. The message "aroused Trump's anger, since he did not make such a decision". At the same time, the sources say that the president is not the first time to yell at the television screen when Nikki Haley's speech is shown there, because they have not only different points of view on relations with Russia, but generally there are wide disagreements on a whole range of issues. However, this time the conflict turned into a public plane. Representatives of the White House accused the ambassador to the UN that she "got it wrong", but Haley rejected such an interpretation of events. In this situation, much more questions arise for Trump's team: who exactly is responsible for foreign policy and why does the president not know which course the country is heading. There is a version that the administration of the president decided to deliberately substitute Haley, which Trump can not stand, without telling her about the decision to delay with the introduction of sanctions.

As a result, the whole story caused a huge reputational damage to the whole American government. As Congressional Rep. Gerald Connolly rightly observed, now about any statement, demands or promises from US officials, one should ask:.

but is it really? On Sunday, April 15, Nikki Haley said that the United States on Monday announced new sanctions against the Russian Federation in connection with the situation in Syria.

However, the next day no message came: Trump decided that the right moment for this was not yet.