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‘Dealmaker’ Trump frustrated by inability to strike deals

www.thedailybeast.com

‘Dealmaker’ Trump Frustrated By Inability to Strike Deals

Donald Trump, who publicly touts himself as a “dealmaker-in-chief,” is privately upset at his failure to strike deals to stop the two wars he has promised to end, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal.

At a closed-door meeting with top donors at Mar-a-Lago last week, Trump admitted that the frustration he feels from his inability to broker peace between Russia and Ukraine keeps him up at night, people in the room told the WSJ.

He said that Russian President Vladimir Putin, who Trump has frequently claimed is negotiating in good faith, has been driving an especially hard bargain. Putin wants “the whole thing,” Trump said, referring to Ukraine.

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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.

Shocking a lifetime ~~con~~ businessman had no idea how geopolitics work. I'm shocked, bring me my fainting couch.

He wants to be seen as a deal-maker but he puts in none of the effort or thought needed to do so. How he's perceived matters to him. Delivering the goods doesn't. He's a puppet and and empty shell.

😂🤡

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.

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.
- And yet he's in the highest political office in the US.
  
  It is because of the Hierarchy of incompetence
- Art of the Fucking-over-small-business doesn't have the same ring to it though (or ego boost)

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.

White House Deputy Press Secretary Anna Kelly said that Trump had been “laser-focused on delivering peace around the world
Really? Because that really hasn't been coming across.
and stopping bad actors from doing harm to Americans and our allies.”
... what allies?
- Russia, Israel and the Gulf despots, plus tinpot dictators like Orban and Bukele.
- Russia. And Israel
  
  Don't forget Neo-Nazis and white supremacists!
  
  More like Putin and Netanyahu specifically (now also Bukele). Trump doesn't give two shits about the people of either Russia, Israel, or El Salvidor (and niether do Putin, Netanyahu, or Bukele).
  Trump has massive respect for people who seek and take power over people, since that's who he seeks to be.
- "Peace through strength" has been the American motto since at least the War of 1812; it's just that Trump is also incredibly stupid and incompetant.
  
  Peace at home through war abroad should be the exact wording.
- Other dictators and conservative authoritarians, mostly. El Salvador, Rwanda, Russia, Hungary, Belarus maybe.
- With new wars starting every day! He's gonna be busy.

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.

Yeah its amazing how you fall short when you start believing your bs stories about yourself. Cult leaders always start believing their own crap.

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'.
- Yeah, Trump gets to eat, Putin gets his dick sucked.
  
  The art o- glmph mlhrrglr hmlrlg glrg

Almost like he's not as good as he thinks he is. Who wouldve thunk?
- I feel so sorry for the guy …he gone his whole life getting everything he asked for, gets to where he thought he’d be given everything he wanted, and people say no. It must be baffling.
  /s, just in case.

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.
- Well, today he just kissed Xi's ass.
- The Iron Law of Fascist Projection agrees.

The deal thing is a smokescreen. The real reason he's upset is that he badly and urgently wants to end a war. It's the only chance in hell he'd ever get a Nobel peace prize, and in his delusional mind, he's still competing with Obama.
- I already thought Obama getting a Nobel peace prize after his massive drone warfare in the Middle East and Africa made that whole organization a joke. Trump getting it would be so much of a step beyond "a joke" that I don't even know what to call it.
  
  If you think drones are somehow more murderous and indiscriminate than artillery shells or mortar rounds, you're delusional. Also, Trump in his first term massively escalated the use of drones and also changed the rules of engagement to no longer require planners to attempt to minimize civilian casualties.
  
  Oh, for sure. I'm not saying they should have given one to Obama. That and Kissinger are why it's not completely unthinkable that Trump might actually get one somehow.

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.
- Unfortunately, a great many people believe this about him. Not because he IS a dealmaker, but because he knows how to tap into the uneducated, racist, sexist, and religiously cultist people out there that are thirsting for vindication.
  
  a great many people believe this about him
  A great many people believe there's a sky daddy who's going to lift them out of their cars and suburban homes and transport them to Sky Land where they'll endlessly play the harp and continue to be fat and dumb, but also happy.
  And those people almost all support Trump.
- Trump could negotiate a deal that is exactly like the one that he killed. It could even be worse.
  His cult will praise him as the deal marker for years, even if they are paying more.

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

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.
- Donald Trump was involved in the ownership of several casinos in Atlantic City, New Jersey, during the 1980s and 1990s. He filed for bankruptcy for his casino businesses multiple times. Specifically, Trump’s casinos—Trump Taj Mahal, Trump Plaza, and Trump Marina—went through bankruptcy proceedings. Trump Taj Mahal: Filed for bankruptcy in 1991 and again in 2004. Trump Plaza: Filed for bankruptcy in 1992 and again in 2010. Trump Marina: Filed for bankruptcy in 2011. In total, Trump was associated with three major casinos that went bankrupt. These bankruptcies were part of a broader pattern of financial challenges he faced in his business ventures. Seriously. HOW do you bankrupt a casino where the house always wins?! He did it 3 times…SMH

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

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?
- The only way Trump is "laser-focused" is that he gets distracted when his handlers use a laser pointer around him.
- “...doing harm to Americans and our allies.” Canadian here. Excuse me??? (no explanation needed)
  
  "Allies" in the Trump sense: hostile powers that are using Trump to destroy us.

Maybe he should read the book he says he wrote?
- He paid someone else to write and read it for him and to tell him how it's the best. Mission accomplished! It's just a mystery as to why the deals aren't piling up and likely Biden's fault.
  
  It's probably the fault of Obama, who was a DEI hire, obvs.
  Donnie and his dumbass cult will just NEVER get over Obama, by the way....

I hate that they all call it a “deal.”
Agreement, compromise, etc. there are words that make is sound less like buying a used car.
- At best, this senile fuck is a used car salesman. It's just that the cult of personality around him is comprised of people dumber than he is.

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.
- https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/narcissistic-personality-disorder/symptoms-causes/syc-20366662
  Narcissistic personality disorder is a mental health condition in which people have an unreasonably high sense of their own importance. They need and seek too much attention and want people to admire them. People with this disorder may lack the ability to understand or care about the feelings of others. But behind this mask of extreme confidence, they are not sure of their self-worth and are easily upset by the slightest criticism.
  
  That's part of the story. Does the Mayo Clinic also have a little article on "Asshole"?

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