All Bark, No Bite: Trump Ain't The Negotiator He Bragged About

[DonViejo]

By ALLEGRA KIRKLAND Published APRIL 28, 2017 6:00 AM

On the campaign trail, Donald Trump marketed himself as an expert negotiator who would draw on his years of cutting deals in the boardroom to deliver the best terms for the American public.

“My Style of deal-making is quite simple and straightforward,” Trump said in his 1987 (ghostwritten) bestseller “The Art of the Deal.” “I aim very high, and then I just keep pushing and pushing and pushing to get what I’m after.”

Almost 100 days into his Oval Office tenure, this high-stakes, take-no-prisoners style has proven to be more of a hindrance than a help for the President—and failed to secure a single legislative victory.

“The Trump folks don’t seem to play well in the sandbox,” Stan Collender, a former top staffer on both the Senate and House Budget Committees, told TPM in a recent interview.

Without “general, generic trust” between the White House and GOP-led Congress, he continued, “you get a situation where Republican lawmakers tend to go off on their own without the administration,” he said. “And this is a White House that doesn’t take kindly to being dissed.”

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[Wounded Bear]

1. If he can't bully someone, he's lost...

[Atman]

2. He was never a "negotiator." He was a bully.

He played Mr. Celebrity, let his kids do the leg work, then didn't pay his contractors. Trumpsky is just a con man.

[underpants]

7. Bully to those below him. Parasite to those equal or above him.

I never understood the allure of him or his name, and that includes pre-TV show, but super wealthy builders appear to find value in it.

[Phoenix61]

3. Do you think he will learn that business deals and political deals are different?

In a business deal, he had something the other party wanted. What does he have in a political deal? A very loyal but very small group of supporters in the US and, as far as I can tell, no international supporters. He is asking the people he is trying to do a deal with to shoot themselves in the foot. Not a very good place to be negotiating from. So sad.

[underpants]

6. Great post

[underpants]

4. The sub-headlines are accurate but The Onion-esque

Trump Decides ‘Worst Trade Deal’ Actually Okay For Now

[spanone]

5. bluster and bullshit.

[Orsino]

8. He's not the anything he bragged about.

Yes, his style of dealing is "simple and straightforward," I'm sure. He says what he wants and has no patience with anyone else's ideas.

The actual deal-cutting, though, is likely left entirely in the hands of more competent people with attention spans. He is a figurehead, and doesn't have a good track record in running businesses.

[PaintedSkies]

9. Oh he's a negotiator alright....

For crap like this

Link to tweet

[Phentex]

10. Jack Schitt was a buddy of his...

knows him very well. Very well.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

11. Trumps skill is not deal-making with powerful counterparts. It is duping gullible victims. -- Frum.