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.
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)