@aligncare
You keep saying this over and over again, but I'm just not seeing the evidence of President Trump's great negotiating skills being translated into him hitting what he's aiming for, particularly legislatively. Although I didn't vote for Trump, I really thought (assumed, hoped, looked forward to) him bringing a fresh perspective, creative ideas, using his bully pulpit, and leveraging his self-touted negotiation skills on things like repeal and replace, tax reform, and selling the Constitutional Amendment he promised to propose on Term Limits. Rather than working with the party he’s supposed to be leading, he’s fighting with them. That doesn’t bode well for his legislative agenda IMO, and we’re already seeing evidence of that.
What evidence are you seeing that President Trump has leveraged his self-described great negotiating skills to hit what he's aiming for (particularly legislatively)? I was really looking forward to it, but I'm just not seeing some evidence that you apparently are seeing.
I keep saying it because it’s true. I’ve read dozens of articles about his life in business written prior to his running for president that detailed projects that were successfully completed because of his negotiating skills, back when no one was calling him racist, Nazi or misogynist.
As head of the Trump Corporation he was negotiating deals to build skyscrapers, golf resorts and hundreds of projects worldwide against stiff opposition from governments, environmentalists, and local civic groups, and he won most of those battles. He was also negotiating deals for himself with networks as a TV personality.
As to your point about legislative success, that’s a non sequitur. Trump is not the leader of the legislative branch and no one would want a president writing legislation. A president’s agenda is often stalled by congress and Trump’s agenda is no different, except that in his case this republican president has faced the stiffest opposition to his presidency since Ronald Reagan was nearly equally opposed by the media, the democrats and many in his own party.
But in his capacity as head of the executive branch Trump’s performance has been stellar. So, I guess we’ll just have to disagree about the negotiating skills of a man who wrote the best seller the Art of the Deal, and proved himself in the business world.
