From "Little Rocket Man" to the scheduling of a historic peace summit and back again, President Donald Trump's dizzying back-and-forth on North Korea is par for the course for a president who likes to keep his audience guessing. As Trump himself said Friday, "Everybody plays games."
Here's a look at Trump's big whiplash moments during negotiating deals in his 17 months in office:
'MEAN' HEALTH CARE
After Trump punctuated nearly every campaign speech with vows to repeal and replace President Barack Obama's health care law, House Republicans in 2017 pushed through legislation that would do exactly that.
Surrounded by smiling Republicans in a Rose Garden ceremony, Trump hailed the bill's passage and called it a "great plan."
Just one month later though, he flipped. In a private meeting with Republican senators, he called the legislation "mean" and said the GOP needs to be "more generous."
The House bill would have cut Medicaid for low-income people and paved the way for insurance companies to charge people with pre-existing illnesses far higher rates than healthy customers, as well as boost prices for older people based on their age.
Trump's about-face on the bill confounded House Republicans who said they thought they were acting on the president's wishes and were left exposed to Democratic attack ads using Trump's own words against them.
"To call a bill that he pushed 'mean' leaves us scratching our heads," Rep. Dave Brat, R-Va., said at the time. Brat said he wondered whether Trump was just trying to "motivate" the Senate, which ultimately fell shy of enough votes to pass it.
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IT'S 'OK' TO FIGHT THE NRA
After the Florida high school shooting
