> Settles Columbia $400M funding freeze for $221M university payment
> Settles for 15% EU tariff after threatening 30% in July 12 letter
Many of these seem like pretty basic negotiations.
> Posts himself as Jesus healing the sick, deletes it, claims it was a doctor
What did he chicken out of? I guess posting a meme?
I'm not a fan of a lot of the things going on at the federal level but I feel like many critics just lost the plot.
>I'm not a fan of a lot of the things going on at the federal level but I feel like many critics just lost the plot.
As a rule of thumb you can ignore everything people say before the "but".
Okay I guess his critics just lost the plot. What's your point?
Do you usually start negotiations by publicly deriding your counterparty and state absurd demands?
I dont know. I guess that's one strategy. Im also not a billionaire and leader of the free world. So I can only assume there is some merit in this particular negotiation style if it landed him where he is.
That's a bit of an appeal to authority, no? It might have given results but it wasn't without cost, is it net-positive overall?
This style doesn't build bridges, it's purely adversarial, diplomacy requires building bridges for long-term sustainability of relations.
"An idiot's idea of an intelligent person"
You’re sanewashing Trump’s absolutely bonkers behavior by focusing on the critics.
The man can barely form a sentence and posts on social media on the mental and writing level of a ten-year-old. Americans are choosing to accept this from their leader. He is 80 years old and obviously very unwell. Terminal-stage Soviet Union had more competent leadership.
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Stop trying to "both sides" this.
Especially when one side is "rabid" "nuts" and the other side is just "sycophants". You are not the neutral reasonable centrist you pretend to be.