Business Insider Australia Trump's bully-and-threaten approach to dealmaking is not so artful
Josh Barro
21 hrs ago Donald Trump's negotiating strategy didn't serve him well in the private sector.
It's serving him even less well in government and as president.
There will be occasions where Trump's tactic of hostage-taking and threatening and generally being too much of a pain to be worth fighting against will work.
But on average, it will not.Donald Trump has a negotiating tactic he really likes: Threaten to do something someone else will really hate, and then offer to stop if they give you what you want.
Call it the "Why are you hitting yourself?" approach to diplomacy.
One of his tactics on trade, for example, is to impose a variety of tariffs on Canada and Mexico on "national security" grounds in hopes of getting them to agree to modify NAFTA according to his terms.
He uses the strategy in domestic politics, too. For example, he has threatened to end the DACA immigration program, then ramped up the separation of asylum-seeking immigrant families, in an effort to press Congress to remake immigration law on his terms, including building a wall.
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