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Wed Jan 9, 2019, 10:47 PM Jan 2019

'Throwing tantrums for 72 years': Trump biographer

Researcher and biographer Michael D’Antonio ... noting that Trump came up with this “walk away” negotiation tactic (in his business dealings). When it came to Trump and Speaker Nancy Pelosi, however, D’Antonio thinks Trump is in over his head. “As I’ve been watching this, I’ve been thinking about the fact that this is a man who has been having tantrums for 72 years,” he continued.

“You know, and what Nancy Pelosi is doing is what a good mother does. She doesn’t give in to the kid having a tantrum. The last thing you do is give a kid who’s having a tantrum what he wants. I think this is perplexing to the president. I think he’s met his match in Mrs. Pelosi.”

Indeed, Pelosi is the mother to five children and a grandmother. Dealing with children isn’t a foreign concept to her.

D’Antonio also noted that this is the first time that he can think of where Trump has been forced to go up against a powerful woman and it’s likely difficult for him.

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/01/throwing-tantrums-72-years-trump-biographer-explains-president-bungled-business-deals/

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'Throwing tantrums for 72 years': Trump biographer (Original Post) left-of-center2012 Jan 2019 OP
Could the Speaker please give this child a time out? A lonnnggg time out? Nt spooky3 Jan 2019 #1
He needs drmeow Jan 2019 #2
With a rolled up copy of The US Constitution n/t yankeepants Jan 2019 #3
what if the Congress was nothing but females??? demigoddess Jan 2019 #4
No kidding. catbyte Jan 2019 #5
When your last stand is bullshit prevalence... czarjak Jan 2019 #6
And the next time he addresses her by her first name in public Fritz Walter Jan 2019 #7
You know, she just might. lunatica Jan 2019 #8
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