lousy deal

President Biden and America got stuck with the lousy deal Donald Trump made.

I wasn’t very good at arithmetic, but even I knew that this was a lousy deal.

No mention that since then more than twenty thousand Americans had died in Vietnam—all to achieve a lousy deal that allowed North Vietnam’s army to stay in the South, making a lasting peace impossible.

Because the Senate bill only allowed for a stopgap extension, Hoyer called it a “lousy deal.”

That means your “expected return” on your $2 ticket price is the same lousy deal it has always been.