Monday, October 23, 2017

Trump The Art of the Deal: File under fiction.



The great dealmaker? Lawmakers find Trump to be an untrustworthy negotiator.  (Washington Post, 10/23/2017)
President Trump campaigned as one of the world’s greatest dealmakers, but after nine months of struggling to broker agreements, lawmakers in both parties increasingly consider him an untrustworthy, chronically inconsistent and easily distracted negotiator. 
As Trump prepares to visit Capitol Hill on Tuesday to unify his party ahead of a high-stakes season of votes on tax cuts and budget measures, some Republicans are openly questioning his negotiating abilities and devising strategies to keep him from changing his mind.

Related reading:
Donald Trump's Ghostwriter Tells All, by Jane Mayer.  (The New Yorker, 7/25/2016)
Edward Kosner, the former editor and publisher of New York, where Schwartz worked as a writer at the time, says, “Tony created Trump. He’s Dr. Frankenstein.” 

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