'They're laughing at him': Thomas Friedman explains why Trump screwed up the Israel embassy deal

'They're laughing at him': Thomas Friedman explains why Trump screwed up the Israel embassy deal: During a Tuesday conversation with CNN’s Anderson Cooper, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman said that President Donald Trump made a terrible deal, essentially giving away the farm, on any chance of Middle East peace. Friedman explained that the Hamas violence and deaths seen in reaction to the embassy moving to Jerusalem were the radical Palestinian response, but he wondered what Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are doing to work with moderate Palestinians …