What did Donald Trump do today?

He canceled his own plans to defund anti-terrorism police that he only just now found out about.

This morning, the Trump administration signaled that it would reinstate $187M in cuts made by the Department of Homeland Security to federal anti-terrorism law enforcement for the state of New York, after New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (accurately) accused the Trump administration of defunding the police.

This kind of budget back-and-forth is not very unusual. What is unusual is that Trump didn't know about it in the first place. As the New York Times reports:

It's important to note that in this case, the Department of Homeland Security was not deliberately keeping this information from Trump (although that kind of thing has happened repeatedly on his watch). The debate over the cuts was bitter and very public, with HHS Secretary Kristi Noem and Hochul trading blows over it in the newspapers. Trump, who spends a large portion of every day online, could easily have found out just by reading the news.

It's also quite possible that Trump had been properly informed and forgot—or that the information had been included in one of the briefings he famously refuses to read.

Trump himself did not comment on the matter today—or anything else, in a way that could be verified as coming from him. For the second month's end in a row, the normally camera-hungry Trump has disappeared completely from public view since Tuesday.

Why does this matter?

• Past a certain point it doesn't matter if the president is clueless about important issues because he doesn't care, can't remember, or wasn't important enough to tell in the first place.