‘Dealmaker’ Trump Frustrated By Inability to Strike Deals

https://www.thedailybeast.com/dealmaker-trump-frustrated-by-inability-to-strike-deals/

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  1. You mean to tell me that bullying the entire world results in the entire world saying fuck you and working without you? Who would have thought?

  2. In other words. Wompidy WOMP WOMP WOMP for Trump. What a loser!

  3. When you develop a reputation for dealing in bad faith and not honoring agreements, people begin to avoid making deals or agreements with you.

  5. Deals are nearly impossible when your word is worth nothing. Why would anyone agree to make compromises with a clown that might just change his mind the next day, week, month? Dude’s been walking out from historical international agreements, trade deals, sabotaging global institutions, and backstabbing long-date allies on a regular basis. He lacks the credibility, or at least the appearance of it, that is required to engange in serious negotiations about anything important. Just see the case of Iran, who agreed to roll back their nuclear program in return for the US lifting sanctions, only for Trump to unilaterally break the deal and betray not only Iran, but also Germany (who helped to broke the deal) and all the other nations affected by it. Not to mention the Paris agreement, NAFTA, the Trans-Pacific Parternship, the WTO, and the list goes on and on.

  6. Mr art of the deal has never known how to actually make a deal. Bullying people is not negotiating.

  7. It is said about casinos – the house always wins.

    So, it takes a very ‘special’ person to lose as the house. Multiple times.

    Elect a loser, expect a screwing.

  8. He was NEVER a deal maker. He has always been a bully that leveraged his position against weaker entities. He has always backed down against power and strength.

  12. You mean he’s frustrated cause he can’t get away with bullying everyone into submission? He can’t just be a tyrant & get away with it??
    Oh my.

  13. Maybe he’s finally gotten the reputation as a lousy deal maker unless it benefits him and that he doesn’t keep his word. I bet the fact he carries more than three dozen felons on his back doesn’t help.

  14. He will be even more frustrated when his orange dye runs out and he finds out it’s not made in the USA.

  15. He’s not a deal maker, he’s a jackass. He only makes “deals” with the dumbest 1% who will buy his shitty NFTs and crypto. If he’s in a position of extreme advantage he’ll punch down relentlessly. But if he thinks he’s weak he’ll do anything you ask. He has zero concept of mutual benefit or not taking advantage of people. 

    He’s an idiot, but his evil soul knows that some people are even dumber. That’s his skill. 

  16. But … but… he insisted to Welker or Moran that he had already negotiated 200 trade deals!! He insisted it was true!

    And Trump wouldn’t have lied to us, would he? (Even though there aren’t 200 countries in the world….)

  17. So the man who bankrupted his name to the point where he licenses it out instead of actually having a real business is unable to make deals? Shocking

  18. It’s almost like he doesn’t know what the hell he’s doing.

  19. The bully tactics don’t work when you stab your allies in the back repeatedly

  20. Everyone in the world (that doesn’t own MAGA hat) knows that trump will NEVER keep his end of a deal.

  21. If you don’t budge then he caves but if you give him everything he wants, he will tear up the deal and ask for more. The trade deal he broke with Canada was his deal.

  22. Starting a trade war with about 100 nations isn’t the same as stiffing your caterer for payment for rendered services, huh?

  23. Because countries are NOT businesses, they don’t work like them they don’t run like them and they are not about win/lose mentality. They don’t f’ing care if other countries thump their chests. They are too busy running their governments

  24. India has declared Trump had nothing to do with the “ceasefire agreement”

  25. All of Trump’s deal making, much of it complete bullshit was from unequal positions and lies. He would break agreements or sue people past their ability to defend themselves. He’s not a dealmaker; he’s a bully. You can verify this through the history of how many small companies he bankrupted and lives he destroyed. He doesn’t even understand the impact of his actions, from then to the effects of the tariffs he has been implementing.

    The absolutely great part of this now is that there are smarter and very powerful people who refuse to be dealt with in the same way now. Xi is one perfect example, who refuses to play Trump’s game and can easily outlast the bullshit by making sure that Trump’s foolishness mainly negatively affects Americans.

  26. Unsurprisingly, his tactic of “gimme gimme gimme, all for me, none for you and if you don’t gimme then you’re being unfair so 500% tariff!” is not working.

  27. This is one of the pitfalls of surrounding himself with sycophants. He’s so used to being told how great he is, these days, that he’s forgotten that his “great deal maker” thing was largely a fiction he and Mark Burnett cooked up for *The Apprentice.*

    Really, he’s a serial failure.

  28. He’s as much of a deal maker as he is a so called businessman.

  29. Did he think making a deal with china is the same process as making a deal with a porn star?

  30. Failed businessman frustrated by inability to do business

  31. Trump is not a deal maker. He is a bully who cries his was through life.

  32. He bankrupted a bunch of his companies and the GOP and magats call him de deal maker. Go figure!

  33. It’s breathtaking how bad he is at being President, and that’s after 4 years from his first term. Anyone who says we’re a meritocracy is not paying attention.

  34. The art of the deal is simple. Every outcome is a win. Never say you lost. It’s that simple.

  35. Yeah, when you announce to the world that you are not a reliable or trustworthy trade partner, it’s not surprising other nations don’t want to do business with you.

  36. Trump obviously never learned his lesson, because during his first term, he managed to increase the US trade deficit after starting a trade war with China that hurt American businesses and consumers BIGLY, and despite his claims that aggressive tariff policies would balance the trade deficit.

    Nothing has changed this time around except for the fact that Trump’s trade policies are even more reckless and haphazard, and he continues to bully and alienate trade allies while insisting that he will singlehandedly reduce the trade deficit.

    What’s worse is how Trump’s policies have incentivized some of our largest trading partners to turn to China, while under Biden, we were in a much better position to economically isolate them.

    We should all be concerned, because the fact is, China’s economy has grown and expanded rapidly in recent years. They have the means, the resources, the workforce, the manufacturing capacity, the bureaucratic power, the facilities and Infrastructure, and the economic resiliency to outmatch and outpace the US nine times out of ten if it comes down to a trade war of attrition.

    And this wouldn’t be as literal if it weren’t for Trump’s continuing efforts to economically insulate the United States from the rest of the world.

    And what’s particularly frustrating is how Trump and his allies have managed to convince their voters that this is all “part of the plan,” that Trump is playing “3D chess,” despite his failure thus far to “negotiate” meaningful trade deals outside of his most recent *performance* with Britain’s leaders, and despite his ongoing escalation of both economic and diplomatic tensions between the US and other countries.

    These countries aren’t “kissing his ass.” Instead, many are being forced to take a harsher stance against the US. It’s like Trump is welcoming retaliation. Which by the way, has the opposite intended effect when it comes to balancing the trade deficit and spurring domestic manufacturing, jobs and innovation.

    And those few countries that are allegedly coming to the table, aren’t doing so out of some regretful position, or because Trump has persuaded them via his genius, “Art of the Deal” negotiating tactics. No, these world leaders simply understand that all Trump is seeking is an on camera appearance with other heads of state who arent ashamed to throw a bit of flattery Trump’s way for his chance at a ratings boost. The actual details of any “trade deal” come second.

    And we know this because he’s the one who has continuously caved and backpedaled due to the negative reception he’s received for his disastrous tariff policies.

    And keep in mind that while Trump has backtracked several times now on his more extreme policies, he’s still determined to impose sweeping, ill-advised tariffs on many trading partners without any real consideration of the risks to Americans and US businesses.

    There was never any “brilliant strategy” involved here. It’s just Trump being Trump. He believes life is a zero sum game, and in this game he is always the winner, no matter the circumstances. So he’s trying to turn his colossal fuck up into a win by disguising his backpedaling as “genius.” If it weren’t for the nosedive in his ratings, he’d still be carrying on with the most reckless iteration of his plan.

    I realized recently that this justification for Trump’s volatile trade agenda, which claims that the US is just righting wrongs and pushing back against all the “unfair” treatment it’s endured over the years, is merely an extension of the right’s persecution complex, but on a global scale.

    They almost always find a way to rationalize their excessive actions because they are perpetual victims. *They* are the ones being ceaselessly oppressed by the powers that be, by all the evils in the world that are mistreating *them*

    And what’s baffling about this is how the United States has spent the last several decades making itself the centerpiece of this global trade system, profiting immensely off of it along the way while contributing to world wide disparities in wealth, power, resources and political and socioeconomic capital.

    Not to mention that during this time, the US was also asserting itself as the world’s globocop and “liberator,” further galvanizing the country as a dominant world superpower.

    So, let me get this straight. We’re the victims of a system that we forcibly built and have disproportionately benefitted from at the great expense of hundreds of millions, if not *billions* of others? Really?

  37. Blackmailing isn’t dealmaking.

    Doubling down is not dealmaking.

    Showing that you turn around to renege on your deals and betray your allies is not dealmaking.

    Weird how he has trouble striking deals.

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