Donald Trump, who publicly touts himself as a “dealmaker-in-chief,” is privately upset at his failure to strike deals to stop the two wars he has promised to end, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal.
At a closed-door meeting with top donors at Mar-a-Lago last week, Trump admitted that the frustration he feels from his inability to broker peace between Russia and Ukraine keeps him up at night, people in the room told the WSJ.
He said that Russian President Vladimir Putin, who Trump has frequently claimed is negotiating in good faith, has been driving an especially hard bargain. Putin wants “the whole thing,” Trump said, referring to Ukraine.
He wants to be seen as a deal-maker but he puts in none of the effort or thought needed to do so. How he’s perceived matters to him. Delivering the goods doesn’t. He’s a puppet and and empty shell.
Yes, Donald, to make a deal you need something called leverage.
You have no leverage with Russia because we’re not helping Ukraine defend against an invasion anymore and you’ve repeated Russian propaganda.
You have no leverage with Israel because you continue to supply them with weapons of war, deport protestors, publicly give them a pass on all war crimes, and promote the forced exile of Palestinians from Gaza.
The simple fact is you may be too intellectually challenged to “achomlish” this. Everyone at the negotiating table—every single person, including the aides and wait staff—is smarter than you.
There’s is a huge difference between “making deals” with small businesses by refusing to pay them after they have delivered the product or service you contracted them to deliver and dictating terms to one or more sovereign countries.
Trump is a bully and a fraud. That doesn’t work at scale.
And yet he’s in the highest political office in the US.
Art of the Fucking-over-small-business doesn’t have the same ring to it though (or ego boost)
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/07/25/donald-trumps-ghostwriter-tells-all
The tl, dr is that Trump gave his co-writer full credit and half the profits of the book, which was a lousy deal for Trump. The co-author took the money and ran.
I’d imagine he’s got a pretty sweet one going on with Putin… but then knowing Trump, this might be the kind of situation where little guy enthusiastically approaches the school bully to voluntarily offer up his lunch money because they’re ‘friends’.
Almost like he’s not as good as he thinks he is. Who wouldve thunk?
He already did his “wait a minute guys, I think Russia might be lying to me” moment. Maybe he can do that with tariffs, too. That week he named Vance the tariff czar, I was waiting for the blame game to begin
I’m trying to think of a time that a US president shat the bed this hard. Can’t. Trump is the worst in all cases and if he legitimately wanted to change the world for good and this wasn’t just about giving into all his egomania for control, he should excuse himself. He cannot unring all the bells he’s rung to try to fix it.
But let’s not kid ourselves : he will never step down. He is too much of a slave to his ego. He’s only going to make everything so much worse off just for the sake of his insatiable ego.
Also: he’s not the only one to blame here. All those voters putting him in power in a system that votes and not an oligarchy especially fucked this right up here. US wasn’t even an oligarchy society for the expressed intention to prevent something like this happening.
Yet they were hell bent on making it happen ‘just to own Libs’. The pettiest and stupidest reason to pick a leader. Everyone fucked themselves on this one.
I hate that they all call it a “deal.”
Agreement, compromise, etc. there are words that make is sound less like buying a used car.
At best, this senile fuck is a used car salesman. It’s just that the cult of personality around him is comprised of people dumber than he is.
This guy is high on his own supply. Just why does he think he’s good at deals? He’s buying his own snake oil.
