Promise the moon? Easy for Trump. But now comes the reckoning

Trump pronounced himself happy with the approach he is taking on health care, which has been the most consuming domestic issue of his presidency so far

President Trump leaves little doubt about what he thinks of his predecessor’s top domestic and international legacies. The health care programme enacted by President Barack Obama is “outrageous” and “absolutely destroying everything in its wake.” The nuclear deal with Iran is “one of the worst and most one-sided transactions the United States has ever entered into.”

Yet as much as he has set his sights on them, Trump after nearly nine months in office has not actually gotten rid of either. Instead, in the past few days, he took partial steps to undercut both initiatives and then left it to Congress