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Originally Posted by SuperUberBob
Guaranteed he does absolutely nothing but accede to the demands of other dictators at these meetings. Either that or negotiators do all the work for him and he takes credit.
The man is a coward who is afraid of people who yield real power.
Yeah he has given away pretty much everything obtained. It was crazy for him to have the first meeting without significant concessions in advance. To have another one after getting clowned the first time would be insane for anyone else not named Trump.
This is the problem with this stupid deal making mythology he has about himself. To him any deal is better than no deal, at the end of the day. He just wants to point at a deal being made. If the other party can show minor subordination he is ecstatic. Except situations like North Korea are the ones you precisely do not make a deal with just to make a deal. You don’t even make a deal to meet to talk about a deal until they make massive concessions.
Of course Trump doesn’t understand any of this. Just like the stupid shutdown. His goal in any conflict is to make a deal. That is why he sometimes makes these all or nothing opening salvos because he knows he will make a deal (often a very bad one giving up way too much).
It is gross. Nobody except trump thinks we were going to be at war with north Korea following the Obama path.