The "hardball strategy" works when stiffing those less powerful than you. Anyway, Trump only cosplayed as a businessman. He got his money through inheritance and money-laundering. He couldn't negotiate a quantity discount for McDonalds cheeseburgers.
Iran is playing Trump like a fiddle because they understand the real power running the US. So they turn their guns on Saudi Arabia, and choke the flow of oil because Trump is openly desperate to get gasoline prices down before the fall. No one in the USA cares about Iranian schoolgirls, pedophilia or even corruption, but $5 a gallon of gas is personal.
I might be biased because I switched to electric but...
...I hope it stays up so he gets hanged by the pump.
Edit: we can dump trump at the pump. Like Mussolini! Huh... interesting name for an electric charging station...(Scribble scribble)
Trump and Putin could end up in 100 years as the greatest environmentalists in history. The entire world is working to wean off oil.
Everything is a Epstein distraction and market manipulation.
It's boring, quite frankly.
It's not TACO or anything like that. It's just plain and brazen market manipulation.
It’s just plain and brazen market manipulation.
All of his decisions are. He's not even hiding it anymore
and just in case anyone doesn't know, this is what he's done all through his real estate career. he was well known for playing games of chicken with potential business partners by coming to a quasi sense of agreement and then reneg. the only thing that kept him afloat there for a while were his ties to organized crime
Of course conservatives/regressives pick a coward to represent them.
They don't mind if he's a coward, as long as he's a bully.
Donald Trump has played this hand before during the 5-month-old Iran war.
He plays it EVERY SINGLE WEEK.
“Read em and weep!”
ah, a royal sampler
"Buy!". "Sell!". "Buy!". "Sell!". And the beat goes on...
And it's not even TACO Tuesday! Tsk tsk!
İmperialist U.S.
This is why they stopped negotiating
Nobody cares about what he says anymore. He's a puppet.
It's fascinating watching him go up against someone who has both the skill and the nerve to handle him.
Xi Jinping was an absolute masterclass at this.
8D Uno. This guy is a genius.
it's monday.
oh wait, his tuesday's gonna be full of making fun of the newly-announced months-dead mcconnell, he had to fit his chickening out in early
Did he get played by that evil master mind Trump again? He's really his equal!
According to that picture, he's starting to nod off on plane stairs now.
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