I had a manager like that. The bottom line is who he was talking to. Every decision was based on not losing face or winning the current meeting and if that meant affecting earlier decisions, he could roll the current meeting back also, no? Just not now, but later.

The thing which helped him (survive( was that he owned (part of) the company so his decisions could not be questioned easily, same as our president.

The government is still bound by law, and unless he formally removes them from the restricted entity list there isn't much choice on how to proceed. It is not legal to special case Huawei, they must act fairly within the entire class of restricted entities.

Trump frequently gets tripped up on this - he wants to make decisions with immediate effect. He would be more effective if he played off it, "I'd love to fix that but we have to follow process first...".

Fair points.