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.

Smart people know NOT to make a deal with Trump because he doesn’t respect deals.

He absolutely can not be trusted because everything out of his mouth is complete nonsense or a lie.

Someone needs to sit down with Trump and agree to sign a deal but instead stab the pen into his fucking spine.

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.

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.

Almost like he’s not as good as he thinks he is. Who wouldve thunk?

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’.

You can call yourself a “dealmaker” regardless of how bad a dealmaker you are, but it’s what others call you that is closer to the truth.

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

Trump was saying that countries were “kissing his ass” to make a deal. Sounds like he’s the one that will be kissing and licking ass.

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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.

Making deals on TV is one thing, making deals with professional negotiators is another.

Remember the song “You’re playing with the big boys now”? Thats what is happening with Trump right now. China and Europe are no bootlicking apprentices that he can fire at will.

In a statement to the Journal, White House Deputy Press Secretary Anna Kelly said that Trump had been “laser-focused on delivering peace around the world and stopping bad actors from doing harm to Americans and our allies.”

Horse shit. Why’d he stop efforts to curb Russian cyber crimes then?

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.