An insider’s guide to politics
Now that term has come up in relation to our current president. In the past month, Donald Trump has flipped and then flopped on a variety of key issues. Trump announced tariffs on Mexico and Canada and then delayed or pulled them back. Trump denounced Volodymyr Zelensky and then made up with him, then denounced him again. Trump has been all over the map on the budget, federal cuts, and taxes.
The back and forth on economic issues is causing the most chaos. Markets are responding negatively, executives are panicking… which leads to so many questions. Why has Trump adopted this bewildering strategy? Is it working? Will it continue? Lastly, will the American people have confidence in this approach?
To answer these questions, we must dig deep into how Trump thinks about “the art of the deal.” We can glean some insights from his 1987 memoir by the same name.
“I never get too attached to one deal or one approach. For starters, I keep a lot of balls in the air, because most deals fall out, no matter how promising they may seem at first.”
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