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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump calls meetings "successful" all the time. I call a good meeting "productive" "enlightening"
"it went well" or other terms but I don't think I've ever called a meeting "Successful"
If his meetings were successful then there should be quantifiable things to say about it that made it so. negotiations won, etc. instead of just saying successful.
He just needs to say the word over and over again to convince himself, and the rest of us, that he is "successful."
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Trump calls meetings "successful" all the time. I call a good meeting "productive" "enlightening" (Original Post)
TeamPooka
May 2017
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(52,164 posts)1. a "successful" meeting is any meeting that actually happens.
yup, they showed up! we actually met! success!
now, did anything useful get accomplished?
that's another matter entirely.
TeamPooka
(24,216 posts)2. or maybe it's when nobody mocks him in the meeting when he says something.
N_E_1 for Tennis
(9,712 posts)3. Well that was successful...
It was beautiful. Everything came out as planned, the greatest most productive, meeting I've had.
He exclaimed as he exited the water closet.
benld74
(9,904 posts)4. I bet he says that about his BM's too