More proof that Trump is a lousy negotiator

[PJMcK]

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This is a link to a headline article at Talking Points Memo by Alice Ollstein. She details the many conflicts that are facing the GOP this fall and how the conflicts between Trump and Congressional leaders have stalled any meaningful advancement of the Republicans' agenda:

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/trump-mcconnell-september-from-hell

Two paragraphs highlight that Trump is a phony when he claims that he can make "great deals" as president:

The president’s ham-handed negotiating tactics during the multi-month health care fight will likely make lawmakers even less willing to risk their own necks to advance his agenda. Holding an over-the-top Rose Garden celebration when the House passed the deeply unpopular Obamacare repeal bill, only to call that bill “mean” weeks later, gave members of Congress whiplash.

And whether he was demanding swing vote Sen. Shelly Moore Capito (R-WV) promise to vote for a bill she’d never seen before riding on Air Force One, or dispatching a cabinet member to threaten Alaska’s Republican senators with cuts to their state’s funding, or generally treating lawmakers like his underlings instead of a co-equal branch of government, Trump proved himself unable to use carrots or sticks to get any bill across the finish line.

Trump is a fraud.

[joshdawg]

1. Yes, he is a republican fraud.

[gordianot]

2. Trump is a one trick pony.

He is a sell out for anything no one else is willing to consider.

[bucolic_frolic]

3. Trump is like a permanent ongoing root canal

[PJMcK]

4. And the anesthesia has worn off (n/t)

[meow2u3]

8. And the root canal spawned an infection that ate away at the jaw bone (nt)

[oberliner]

5. Capito did end up voting for the bill

For what that is worth.

And shame on her for doing so.

[PJMcK]

6. Did she get a seat on Air Force One?

Republicans usually suck.

[oberliner]

7. Supposedly, she declined the invitation

But she still went along with the vote Trump wanted her to make, even though, she, ostensibly, had serious reservations about the awful bill.

[dalton99a]

12. Disgusting

[ginnyinWI]

9. people who have to tell you how great they are---

are usually not that great.

I mean, come on: let your sterling qualities speak for themselves. Obama always did.

[PJMcK]

10. Trump makes these false statements repeatedly

"I'm, like, really rich." Really rich people would never say such a thing.

"I'm really smart." Smart people know that there is much they do not know; they would not make such a claim.

"I'm the least racist person you'll ever meet. Believe me." When someone says they are not something, say, a bigot, you can usually be sure that they are that thing.

When I see all of the bad things that Trump represents, I'm aghast that 60+ million Americans voted for him. It's heartbreaking.

[Justice]

11. He negotiates all right -

with fake flattery, bribery??, bullying and abuse of power. Those are his techniques.

Would be wrong to say he doesn't negotiate - he has a style and it has worked for him as a real estate developer.