{"id":41744,"date":"2019-06-10T14:27:22","date_gmt":"2019-06-10T21:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=41744"},"modified":"2019-06-11T12:09:32","modified_gmt":"2019-06-11T19:09:32","slug":"winning-donald-trumps-presidency-affirms-his-mastery-of-the-art-of-destroying-deals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=41744","title":{"rendered":"WINNING? Donald Trump’s Presidency Affirms his Mastery of the Art of Destroying Deals"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week Donald Trump made a big deal about his dealmaking prowess. After petulantly threatening to impose ill-advised tariffs on Mexico if they didn’t obediently comply with his demands on immigration, Trump triumphantly declared that he had won this manufactured showdown with the announcement of a new border agreement. Needles to say, this is more of his typical bluster and bragging about something he had not actually done.<\/p>\n

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In reality, the terms to which Mexico agreed were negotiated months ago<\/a><\/strong> and had nothing to do with his recent tariff temper tantrum. Additionally, there was no agreement<\/a><\/strong> for Mexico to buy more agricultural products from the U.S. as Trump dishonestly tweeted. What’s more, Trump’s assertion that there is a secret pending agreement with further concessions has been flatly denied<\/a><\/strong> by Mexico’s foreign minister.<\/p>\n

Trump disgorged an extended tweetstorm on Monday morning complaining that the media was misrepresenting his alleged achievement. He naturally focused on his perennial foe, the New York Times, which he once again referred to in Stalinist terms as “enemy of the people.”<\/em> He said, without support, that their story had “been proven shockingly false,”<\/em> and asked when they would admit that the story was a fraud and “Sick Journalism.”<\/em> Instead, the Times responded saying:<\/p>\n

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Reupping this from @NYTimesPR<\/a> in case there's any confusion: "We are confident in our reporting, and as with so many other occasions, our stories stand up over time and the president's denials of them do not. Calling the press the enemy is undemocratic and dangerous."<\/p>\n

— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) June 9, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n