President Donald Trump s recent promise of an executive order on health care makes no sense as policy.

He has said the order, which he first announced during a press conference at his New Jersey golf club last weekend, would protect people with pre-existing conditions. But the Affordable Care Act already prohibits insurers from denying coverage or charging higher premiums based on a persons medical status. An executive order wouldnt strengthen that commitment.

But Trumps vow makes a ton of sense as politics.

He and his Republican allies have spent the last few years trying to take away preexisting condition protections, through legislation to repeal Obamacare and a series of executive actions to undermine the law. More recently, Trump has backed a lawsuit urging the Supreme Court to wipe out the Affordable Care Act and with it the preexisting condition proviso because of a supposed constitutional flaw in the law.