“Dealmaker-in-Chief”, the best negotiator of agreements: the US president is boasting his qualification.
During his three -day tour of the Middle East, from last Monday to Thursday, Trump made agreements with Saudi Arabia, $ 96 billion in Qatar, to buy Boeing aircraft, while claiming a Boeing aircraft. Arabic country in a ten -year framework of $ 1.4 trillion in the US in the energy and artificial intelligence sectors.
These are agreements in the trading spirit that Trump, as a businessman, is used to closing.
However, his agreement with China to reduce duties, which preceded the visit to the monarchies of the Persian Gulf, as well as his agreement with Ukraine to co -exploit the country’s rare land, the agreement with the British to lift or adjust their duties, Agreements, as their impacts relate to the planet and not just the US.
Dissatisfaction for Gaza and Ukraine
According to the Wall Street Journal, the US president, in his recent private talks in Mar-A-Lago, is unhappy with his inability to close agreements and end the two wars he had promised to end, Russia with Ukraine and Ukraine. “Putin wants the whole Ukraine” Trump is said to be and as for Gaza, things are hard “Because they fight there a life.”
How good is Trump? “The Step” talked to Americans who have worked with him in the construction sector for a long time, with journalists watching his career from the time he was a rising star in the real estate sector, but also with political scientists and former diplomats who evaluate it.
OR Barbar He is an engineer in New York and has worked for 18 years for Trump and his company, Trump Organization – of which he was also vice -president in the early 1980s. He has not maintained contact with him for years. He left the company when he accused her of a serious mistake in a real estate case in California.
Shortly before the 2020 presidential election, Rness released a book on her collaboration with Trump, entitled “Tower of Lies” (“The Tower of Lies”). The title is a hint to Trump Tower (Trump Tower) on the fifth avenue, the building that initially made Trump known in New York. Ras supervised, as an engineer, the work throughout the erection of the Trump Tower.
“Trump I met was more human” He says in “Vima” by phone from New York. “She respected me because she said that a good woman is better than ten men, because the woman has to work very hard and much more to prove she is really good. But he was always bully, aristocratic, threatening everyone with lawsuits and lawsuits. He was talking badly to my partners, saying different things to Each and in the end everyone was wondering what he was saying was true. He never took responsibility if something was going wrong. ”
“He was always atheist but he thought he was God”
Ras was one of the few people who could say “no” to Trump and he would hear it. From one point on, however, that changed. What happened?
“I don’t think there was a specific event. That was just his evolution. You know, Trump appeared in New York with his father’s money, he was spoiled. When it began to become more known, In the late 1980s, after releasing his book “The Art of the Deal” (1987), he began to believe that his power was endless. He thought he was the best in everything, that he knew more than everyone else about everything, politicians about politics, from doctors about AIDS. He was always atheist but he thought he was god, and made others believe it. The more he was rich, the more obsessed with himself. ”
Trump’s involvement with politics was, as Ras tells us, “As a game, as if he were telling the others by gum, ‘you see me, I can become president!'” When 2016 was a candidate for the first time, Trump did not believe he would win. “But when he was elected president, no one could control him. Because Trump always used to have something for everyone: either to offer them a position or to keep them in their hand threatening them with unpleasant revelations. Trump was always acquiring people. ”
As for the deals, his agreements, they were not always successful. “Trump believed that he was permanently in power, but this was not always the case when it was professional agreements. In his relationships with women, yes, he was permanently in a position of power » The Rass ends.
Maximalist requirements and retreat
Trump’s talent in the negotiations is disputed and the David Kay Joonstona journalist award -winning Pulitzer who has worked for a number of media for years such as the “New York Times” and Reuters. Author of several books, Johnston released in 2016 the bestseller entitled “The Making of Donald Trump”, a book-time, a result of many years of research on Trump’s rise as a businessman and his promotion as a candidate.
Johnston refers to Trump only by his small name when he speaks to “Step”: “Donald, I know and watch closely since 1988, when he negotiates an agreement, initially makes maximalist demands from which finally recedes. This does not prevent him from saying that he has closed the deal even when he has won little, or even nothing. “.
The same view echoes and the Joshua WhiteProfessor of International Relations at John Hopkins University, who stresses that “Trump is seeking to settle well -known and prominent issues so that he and his team can announce impressive ‘victories’ and those involved to consent to an agreement beneficial to the US and the president’s international prestige.”
Johnston is less elegant in his wording.
“Donald is primarily based on threats and dialiki against those with whom he negotiates who are usually in a more economically weaker position. Others threaten them with revelations that will hurt them. But when he is confronted with strong opponents who are strategically thinking, such as China in the duty case, then Donald recedes, shrinks. Donald is a scammer, the greatest in the world’s history, having managed to be elected US president twice, lying about his health, his business skills, his golf performance and his negotiating ability. They are all lies, but he managed to persuade the multitude of maga to ignore all the incomprehensible public documents and figures, because Donald is simply the only one who possesses the truth. ”
The logic of zero sum
For him Stan Viggerfinancial analyst at Think Tank American Enterprise Institute, Trump’s negotiating logic is “The logic of zero sum”. With this logic, however, it is very difficult to reach important agreements for both sides.
At the same time, Trump wants, with a bold, to be considered a “dealmaker”. “The combination of these two features, that is, in agreements that bring about a minimal update of the status quo, which is nevertheless presented as a major triumph.” As a representative example of logic, Vigger quotes the recent United States – Great Britain Agreement.
According to Professor White, “Trump avoids agreements that will cost America in time and money and demand the US military involvement.” He applied this tactic to the agreements with Houthi and Britain. When, however, as Vigger says, Trump comes into negotiations, “Initially comes with extremely aggressive positions. And then has to make colossal retreats in order to conclude an agreement. This happened to China where both sides reduced the duties to 10%after Trump had reached 145%. ”
THE Sophocles Goulasfinancial analyst at Think Tank Brookings Institution, describes Trump as “Coercive Negotiator, that is, as a pressing negotiator with the sole purpose of force the other side to give as much as possible. Trump is not interested in how much he is damaging the other side even if the negotiation is fair. “
‘Successful Truce India – Pakistan’
By the ‘Step’ interlocutors, only Zoltan Fecherpolitical and diplomatic analyst at Think Tank Atlantic Council, and a former diplomat to Hungarian missions to Washington and Ankara, recognizes positive elements in Trump’s negotiating style. “It comes from the business world, with talent and extensive experience in business agreements, which it also wants to convey to international politics, a difficult thing because there are completely different rules in international politics. But we have to credit the truce between Pakistan and India, an issue where his mediating efforts show that Trump can make a difference in achieving greater security and peace in the world. ”
Nevertheless, the former diplomat seems to confirm the “Wall Street Journal” on Trump’s dissatisfaction with the agreements that “do not come out”: “Administration on thorny issues is much more difficult than he imagined. We learn, from the President’s circles, that he is annoyed when the agreements are not reached. “
The “Golden Agreements” of Trump and Groom
Billion businesses
Donald Trump’s tour of Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates last week was aimed at concluding agreements that would boost the US economy. But at the same time it was.
The possibility of a conflict of interests between Trump’s political office and his family’s business is neither concerned with the US president nor his government or the Republican Party.
Skyscrapers
One week before Trump’s transition to Saudi Arabia, his secondary son, Eric Trump, head of the family -owned real estate company Trump Organization, announced the collaboration with the Saudi company Dar Global for the construction of a luxury hotel and a luxury hotel. The first apartments have already been sold for $ 20 million each.
Golf Stadiums
Trump Organization and Dar Global are planning to build a skyscraper in Riyadh and another skyscraper in Jeddah, costing $ 530 million. Eric Trump also announced the construction of hotel and golf courses in Oman.
Luxurious resort
On May 7 in Doha, Eric Trump signed an agreement with Qatar on the construction of a luxurious resort with golf courses on Simai beach, which costs $ 5.5 billion.
Hotel
As Eric Trump closed deals in the Middle East, his brother, Donald Trump Junior, visited Hungary, Romania and Serbia, where he agreed with Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic for the construction of a hotel. The project will also be attended by the construction company of Jared Kouchner, Ivanka Trump’s wife.
