Jeb is bummed out.
Posted on 01/27/2017 11:49:08 AM PST by MarvinStinson
Art of the Deal author and U.S. President Donald Trump is maybe not the negotiator he's chalked up to be. Despite his spokesperson once dubbing him "the best negotiator in the history of the world," Thursday's series of incidents with Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto were evidence to the contrary, The New Yorker's Ryan Lizza writes.
Mexico is a major trading partner and ally of the U.S., but was alienated Thursday when Trump insisted Mexico would pay for the border wall, Peña Nieto insisted he wouldn't, and Trump responded by tweeting that if that was the case, then maybe the two leaders should cancel their upcoming meeting. Peña Nieto, in essence, said, "Okay, fine."
This depressing episode confirms several of the worst fears about Trump. The first is that he is not a good negotiator. Rather than waiting a week before he issued his executive orders on immigration, Trump signed them at a moment that maximally embarrassed [Secretary of Foreign Affairs Luis] Videgaray, the Mexican official who is the most sympathetic to him. The moves left the unpopular Peña Nieto with no choice but to cancel next week's visit, and poisoned the relationship with one of America's closest allies and our third-largest trading partner.
A Mexican Embassy official noted to Lizza that the diplomats at the White House were also furious at Trump for signing an executive order in his first days as president that called for the construction on the border and expanded deportation laws. "They were like, 'What the f--- are we going to negotiate?'" the official told The New Yorker. "'You've done the job. What are we going to negotiate if you've signed this? What's wrong with you?'"
Horseshit
What a joke
http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/donald-trumps-first-alarming-week-as-president-elect
Yeah - that guy is always whining about Trump’s performance
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I really can’t understand how Mexico can in any way be called an ally. They didn’t help us in WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam, The Gulf War, the subsequent wars in the ME, the drug war which they are prosecuting against us. So in what way are they an ally?
As to being a trading partner, we are a market for them since we have $60B trade deficit with them. Partnership implies equality and we have been getting reamed so enough is enough and if they don’t like it they can sit on an agave and have a Corona.
Analysis OBE...
Jeb is bummed out.
More FakeNews from the left.
this bird has no concept regarding the art of negotiation...Trump is always prepared to lose, and he knows... he who blinks first usually gets the short end...finally never shut the door and he kept it open by floating the threat of a 20% tariff. Mexico’s richest citizen calls Trump a great negotiator and has offered to step up to help the President of Mexico. ..classic ..game, set, match
Betting Pinata Nieto comes crawling to Trump..the Peso is plummeting...PEMEX may have to raise Petrol prices again..Neito is a ticking time bomb of a government he needs trump far more than we need him!
This moron has apparently never read “The Art of the Deal.”
It's the establishment of leverage.
Mexico has infinitely more at risk than the U.S.
Time to make them aware of that fact.
Trump is laying down his markers. Basically Trump holds all of the cards. He knows it and the Mexicans know it. Where else are they gonna go?
Lizza loved the Iran deal.
Mexico is a major trading partner and ally of the U.S.,
In what way are they an ally? they're a trading partner currently enjoying a 60 billion dollar trade surplus to our disadvantage. They need us. We DON'T need them.
Anyway, the Mexican president bowed out from the meeting and is scared sh1tless of The Wall because his revenue stream from the drug cartels will dry up. He's dirty.
Details here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3517846/posts
To democrats and establishment Pubbies it is. So is compromise. President Trump will teach them otherwise!
Trump knows the world is watching this joust with Meh-he-co.
Watch for Vicente Fox to make an overture of friendship soon.
Having done some commercial real estate myself, the rule of thumb is all deals break down at least 6 times. Trump knows this. We are on stage one of many. Trump will laugh last.
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