Posted on 11/15/2017 1:55:22 PM PST by Kaslin
RUSH: Now, this is funny. Trump sprung the three UCLA basketball players from the ChiCom jail. They were in there for shoplifting. UCLA basketball team was in China, and these three guys got pinched for shoplifting, and Trump, as part of his diplomatic efforts there, got them released. And apparently they havent said thank you.
And so Trump is publicly saying, Are these UCLA players gonna thank me for getting them out? And people are saying, Thats so unpresidential. He should be above it. He shouldnt be requiring young children to have the knowledge that the And maybe theyre not Trump supporters anyway, so why should they thank him? The Drive-Bys are all over this as though its some kind of controversy that Trump is asking whether or not these three basketball players will thank him for springing them out of jail.
Now, yesterday in the first hour of the program, I purposely talked about Trumps trip to Asia. It was my belief yesterday it is today, too that Trumps trip was a profound success. And it was a resounding success on many levels. And I focused on the skill that President Trump brought to the negotiating table with the ChiComs. And Im not gonna rehash it all.
But just to refresh your memory, I highlighted the technique necessary to successfully negotiate with ChiComs. They are not like us. Western civilization, Western culture is not theirs. This is not a criticism; its an acknowledgment. Whereas we, in negotiating with ourselves or with other foreign countries, we have a belief system of mutual agreement even if both sides remain unhappy when the deals over, and its often said, in fact, that a really good deal is when both sides are unhappy. Which means that both sides got something the other side wasnt prepared to give, and that means its good, its good when you dont get everything you want. That would be selfish and unfair.
This has been an established negotiating tactic. Its part of our culture. Im not putting it down. I am not praising it. Im just pointing it out. The Chinese are totally different. They dont have anything like that attitudinally. They dont go into negotiations, whatever it is, negotiating human rights, civil rights abuses, foreign trade deals, if it doesnt benefit China, theyre not gonna do it. If its not something that they can claim is a victory, theyre not gonna do it.
You can chalk it up to the need for self-esteem and respect. Whatever the psychological reasoning behind it, the Chinese literally do not have in their thinking vocabulary the idea that a deal is good if both sides are unhappy with it. In the Chinese world of negotiating, you dont do it if youre gonna be unhappy with it when its over. So you have to know that going in when youre gonna start doing deals with the ChiComs.
And remember during the campaign, Trump did nothing but beat them up. So for two years the ChiComs listened to Trump beat em up, talk to them about how they are unfair, how they are cheaters, how theyre currency manipulators. And so two years of that, and the ChiComs think they are ready for whats coming from Trump.
When in fact, Trump, if he thought that he was gonna be elected president, was already beginning his negotiations by starting out with the outrageous his technique is, ask for three times what youll settle for. Ask for three times what you really want. Its the only way to get what you really want. You have to be able to appear to be coming down.
You have to appear to be able to be throwing things out, things that you want, in order to get what you want. So you start three times higher. But Trump also knew that whatever it was, the Chinese when it was over, had to think they won. The Chinese had to think that, on balance, it was a good deal for them. And here is how I explained it on the program yesterday.
RUSH ARCHIVE: North Korea is the elephant in the room. Trump wants help from Xi Jinping on neutralizing Kim Jong-un. But Xi Jinpings got no interest in doing that for the sake of humanity, for the betterment of the world. If getting rid of the North Koreans doesnt benefit the Chinese, to hell with it. He doesnt care about the instability of the world except as it might affect China. So thats the key. So you have to appeal to the Chinese on the basis that, Look, I want to make a new trade deal with you.
Now, remember, Trump started out on the campaign trail telling us hes gonna be tough. The ChiComs have been getting away with murder cause Americans are so stupid, but those days are over. The free ride of the Chinese is over. So theyve been hearing that for two years. So theyre expecting Trump to come in and strip everything away, take away all the benefits they have, all the advantages. He didnt do that. He gave em favorable trade deals but they have to help us with Kim Jong-un. So neutralizing Kim Jong-un then equals a benefit for the ChiComs.
RUSH: Right. Remember, now, the Chinese, to them the North Koreans, in doing something that might neutralize the North Koreans or mitigate them, its not about making the world safer, its not about humanity, its not about right and wrong. For the Chinese its all about when this is all over, do we benefit, do we win? And Trump realized that the Chinese are not going to make the North Koreans more important than themselves.
What Trump wanted was more favorable trade deals with them. They were afraid Trump was gonna start from scratch and be really tough. That was not Trumps starting position. Trump gave them very favorable deals that they could claim were a win for them. But the price was weighing in on the North Koreans.
So this morning on CNNs New Day, the cohost was Fredo Cuomo, and hes talking to the former NSA Director, Michael Hayden. I think Hayden was also at CIA. But regardless, hes not a Trump fan. Hayden has never been a big Trumpist. More like a Never Trumper.
So Fredo says to Michael Hayden, China is sending a special envoy to North Korea this week. The president has repeatedly called on China to put more pressure on North Korea over its nuke program. Mr. Hayden, is this proof of progress? Should we see this development as a reflection of Trumps effectiveness?
HAYDEN: I think the timing suggests thats true. So youve got a bit of a ray of light, maybe a breath of fresh air here, the Chinese trying to amp up their pressure on the North Koreans. I think we can rely on them to amp up the pressure a bit to have Kim, the youngest, tone down the rhetoric. Maybe stop testing for a while. This is pass/fail for Kim Jong-un. This is about his and his regimes survival.
RUSH: Well, bingo! Did I not lay it all out for you yesterday? Not to be braggadocios, dont misunderstand, but I spent the first hour on this, the first half hour on this, essentially, and this is why. Cause this is a huge deal. And youre not gonna see Trump credited. Youre not gonna see anything of the sort.
All youre gonna see is Trumps unfit. Trump has no business being president. Trump doesnt even know who these people are. Trump has no business talking to ChiComs. Trump has no business in North Korea. All he does is insult the North Korean guy as short and fat, we cant have that. Thats unpresidential.
When in truth Trump succeeded in getting Xi Jinping to tell the short, fat, little potbellied dictator in North Korea to dial it back. Now, well see if it actually happens. But its in Chinas benefit to do it. China is not going to allow North Korean interests to supersede its own.
Now, if Trump had gone over there and in a very bellicose manner demanded that Xi Jinping tone down that guy or else, it would have been an abysmal failure. The Chinese reaction: You dont come over here and tell us what to do. Thats our ally. Screw you! in diplomatic language.
But that isnt what Trump did. Trump gave them something that they didnt think they were gonna get, trade-wise, that, B, constituted in their way of thinking a win, to now its in their best interests to dial back North Korea in order to maintain this newfound good relationship that China has with the Trump administration.
It was really, really, you have to say, well done. And as I say, I doubt youre gonna hear this perspective. I mean, even Hayden here, in his answer, was very begrudging (imitating Hayden), Well, I think the timing suggests, yes, thats true. The president was effective. So you have a bit of a ray of light. He had to admit it because it is true. So thats that.
Now well take a break here, come back with well, were either gonna get back to the phones or were gonna return to the fertile ground of sexual perversion and harassment and abuse in the world of politics and entertainment.
The MOST PRESIDENTIAL President we’ve had in office for nearly 30 years. Tweets? Meh. The press has cut him off from any good news otherwise.
In my experience the only grateful criminals are the professionals.
Petty punks act like... petty punks.
Personally, I have no use for Twitter, but President Trump can use it as much as he wants to, to get his message out.
Grateful criminals? That doesn’t make sense
Rush made fun of Americans losing their jobs to Mexico when NAFTA was passed. That is all you need to know about him.
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