As director of the National Economic Council, Larry Kudlow is responsible for advising the president on economic matters, turning his stated goals into policy, and managing the implementation of his agenda. Currently, Donald Trump has several major economic balls in the air, from tariff negotiations with China that could turn into a full-blown trade war, to the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement with Canada and Mexico, to the curious case of his decision to save a Chinese electronics maker from losing 75,000 jobs after it violated U.S. sanctions. And in news that will surely help people sleep at night, Kudlow, who left his CNBC talking-head gig to replace Gary Cohn as N.E.C. chief in March, says he has absolutely no idea what to expect from the man in charge when it comes to any of the issues in question.

In an interview with Axios on Tuesday, Kudlow told Mike Allen that while he’s sensed “a little bit of a bromance” between President Trump and President Xi Jinping, and “bromances are always good,” where this ultimately leads, “I don’t know.” Could it translate into a trade deal, perhaps following a round of golf and chocolate cake at Mar-a-Lago, i.e. Trump’s favorite way to bro out with world leaders? Sure. Could the capricious Trump decide instead to jilt Xi and plunge the U.S. in one of those good and easy to win trade wars? Also possible!

And hey, what about NAFTA, which Trump swore up and down the campaign trail was a horrible deal that he would rip up once in office, and which our neighbors to the North and South having been desperately attempting to salvage over tense rounds of renegotiations? Your guess is as good as ole Lar’s, who put the odds of saving the deal at 51-49, admitting in the third person, “That’s not great for Kudlow optimism.”

As for that ZTE deal? Kudlow had approximately zero insights to share re: whether we can expect the president to actually save the Chinese company, but he did suggest that he was one of the officials caught totally off guard by Trump’s Sunday announcement, in which the president said he’s working with Xi to give ZTE “a way to get back into business,” in direct contradiction to the actions taken by his own Commerce Department. In fact, Kudlow appears to believe the Commerce Department was right to punish the Chinese company, which has since effectively shut down. “It’s a very poorly run company,” Kudlow told Allen. “It has many internal flaws. This is principally an enforcement issue. They have been proven guilty not once not twice but three times.”

Obviously, seemingly having no idea whatsoever which way the administration is leaning on major economic issues isn’t entirely Kudlow’s fault, but a product of the unpredictable lunatic he works for who changes his agenda by the hour and informs his N.E.C. director about major tariff decisions right after he’s announced them. One day China “is raping us” and must be punished, the next Kudlow’s boss is going to bat for Chinese jobs with his close personal friend Xi Jinping. In the past, he’s described Canada as a bunch of slippery bastards who’ve been taking us for a ride for too long, but tomorrow he might decide he sees a lot of himself in Justin Trudeau and cut a deal. Given his long track record of rarely being right, Kudlow is actually showing tremendous personal growth in looking at the economic issues of the day and saying, more or less, “F--k if I know.”