Bill Richardson: For Negotiating Tips, [Redacted] should read "Art of the Deal."

[TygrBright]

My former Goob trolls the Septic Sphincter at Expert Level via WaPo:

"So far, he’s giving up leverage without asking for anything in return."

President Trump prides himself on being a world-class negotiator. His candidacy, and now his presidency, have relied on that premise. He says he’ll “force the Iranians back to the bargaining table” on the nuclear deal; after scrapping the Trans-Pacific Partnership, he’ll secure bilateral trade deals with Pacific Rim countries and renegotiate NAFTA’s terms; Mexico, he insists, “will pay for the wall, believe me — 100 percent.” Never one to underpromise, last year he told one reporter: “Peace all over the world would be the best deal. And I think I would know how to do it better than anybody else.”

Trump the businessman has, indeed, haggled many business deals. He even wrote a best-selling book about it. Yet politician Trump is making mistakes that “Art of the Deal” Trump wouldn’t. He’s negotiating against himself — giving up leverage before there’s a corresponding ask — and he’s boxing in his negotiating partners, driving up the cost of reaching agreements, with potentially perilous results.

"Never one to underpromise," indeed.

WTG, Bill.

amusedly,
Bright

[Wellstone ruled]

1. What bullshit book.

Started or tried to read this so called book. The Ghost Writer pretty much supplied the whole text. Hear and there there is some Trump verbiage and it reads like a McGuffy Reader.

[JI7]

2. he is a failed business person.

[Lucinda]

3. TY KNR

[bhikkhu]

4. Not surprising - he probably never read it

We know, of course, he didn't write it.