We are in the social, political and economic mess we are in because we have made stupid deals by stupid people and he told us those deals would be negated or re negotiated.
Listen again to his comment.
THAT was what he said.
BINGO
exactly. He knows that the first step to forward progress is admitting mistakes on both sides. It’s basically the same thing he said about NoKo (which was greeted with far less hysterical reaction)