BASH: The president has a reputation as a dealmaker, so why haven't we seen the kind of trade deals he promised in the last 90 days?
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 6, 2025
BESSENT: He didn't promise this … many of these countries never even contacted us. pic.twitter.com/cleQeiPXSW
BASH: The president has a reputation as a dealmaker, so why haven’t we seen the kind of trade deals he promised in the last 90 days?
BESSENT: He didn’t promise this … many of these countries never even contacted us.
Uh huh, ok:
I think Trump is bored with the whole tariff thing. It wasn’t as much fun as he thought it was going to be. He wanted to bend the world to his will and it turns out it’s not that easy. So now he’s just going to issue edicts, hoping that some will be desperate enough to come crawling back while he lets the rest ride. He honestly believes that everything always works out for him no matter what and he’s not wrong.
The art of the deal is really just hoping you can intimidate people into doing what you want them to do. That’s what Roy Cohn taught him. But it never really worked for him. If he hadn’t had his daddy’s money and a talent for hype he’d be some old guy living in a tract house on Staten Island eating junk food and yelling at the TV. Instead, he’s some old guy living in the White House eating junk food and yelling at the TV — and half of America thinks it’s brilliant and the whole world is forced to deal with it.
I’ll just leave this here: