Trump V Kim Jong Un

[saptastic]

Part II : Trump walks.

[Old Greg]

MF is generally a very strange fellow, strange, but good.

Good for what?

[AtW]

Good for what?

Eating pies

[WTFH]

Part II : Trump walks.

Trump doesn't walk. He's too obese and doddery to do so. Straight into a golf cart as soon as he can.

How much did this latest fiasco cost the American public?

[Yorkie62]

Trump doesn't walk. He's too obese and doddery to do so. Straight into a golf cart as soon as he can.

How much did this latest fiasco cost the American public?

But a good example of how to handle negotiations. If you can't get the deal you want. WALK!

[NigelJK]

Sounds familiar.

[WTFH]

But a good example of how to handle negotiations. If you can't get the deal you want. WALK!

No, it shows abject failure at negotiating.

If you can't get the deal you want, you negotiate to get a deal that works for both parties. Walking away is the cowardly thing to do, it's proof that you've failed. You don't know what you want, you aren't prepared to negotiate, but you're happy to twist the other side's words - was it "partially lift sanctions" or "lift all sanctions"?

In Trump's book, "The Art of The Deal" his idea of making a deal is to defeat the opposition, to beat them to a point where they accept whatever you say. That is not negotiation. That is not what successful individuals, successful businesses or successful countries do. It is, on the other hand, the standard action of bullies and cry babies.

[Gibbon]

If you can't get the deal you want, you negotiate to get a deal that works for both parties. Walking away is the cowardly thing to do, it's proof that you've failed.

Please give me a shout when you want to buy your next car. Just remember you can't walk away.

[Yorkie62]

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In Trump's book, "The Art of The Deal" his idea of making a deal is to defeat the opposition, to beat them to a point where they accept whatever you say. That is not negotiation. That is not what successful individuals, successful businesses or successful countries do. It is, on the other hand, the standard action of bullies and cry babies.

Sounds just like the EUs approach to negotiation.

[WTFH]

Please give me a shout when you want to buy your next car. Just remember you can't walk away.

You can walk away if, after negotiations, you can't reach a mutually acceptable outcome.

If one side is prepared to negotiate, but the other side is not interested in discussing what it wants, then the negotiations will go nowhere, as has been made obvious over the last 3 years. Repeating glib phrases is not negotiating. Actually suggesting what you want is a step forward, but one that the UK hasn't done.