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Trump’s Dealmaking Is All About Him
From effectively ending the war in Ukraine to setting tariffs, the president’s negotiating skills are coming up short.
Art of the spiel.
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Marco Rubio advised ABC News last week that negotiating prowess was a key to understanding why President Donald Trump had been cozying up to Vladimir Putin despite Russia’s brutal and unrelenting invasion of Ukraine.
“We have to bring them to the table. You’re not going to bring them to the table if you’re calling them names, if you’re being antagonistic,” the secretary of state noted. “That’s just the president’s instincts from years and years and years of putting together deals as someone who’s in business.”