I remember a story going around during his first term where an ex-employee talked about the difficulty of getting Trump to sign off on deals his underlings had negotiated for him. He had a habit of reneging at the last second for petty reasons (sound familiar?), so they’d developed a trick to get him to cooperate.

The trick was that the Trump employees would come to an agreement with the other party as normal, but when bringing the deal to Trump they’d state terms that were much more favorable to the other party and let Trump ‘negotiate’ it down to what was already agreed on.

They did this because even if a deal greatly favored Trump, he was liable to torpedo the entire thing if he didn’t feel like he personally ‘won’ negotiations. The charade let him think he was responsible for squeezing more money out of the other party, and with his ego sated he would happily sign whatever was agreed upon.

You’re right but it’s not just because he wants to manipulate the market, it’s kinda the other way around. He has to do this bullshit because Iran holds all the cards, the only way to end the war and get the straight open involves reigning in Israel and allowing Iran continued access to fissile materials, and neither his supporters nor handlers will abide that, this will happen until the physical realities of the oil shock become impossible to ignore.

• Yes

• Definitely

• Absolutely

Iran looks around

Trump hiding in the bushes “I rigged it!”

This could be an Onion hesdline lol

a"deal" of trumps, includes whoever gives him the details/money. hes a very lazy person.

Iran: Okay then, how about this? “The virgin America vs. the CHAD Iran”.

Embiggen > bigly