Posted on 12/26/2016 10:52:54 AM PST by Sean_Anthony
Lots more nukes? 10 percent tariffs? Remember how the guy operates before you wet yourself
Public statements affect different people in different ways. Since the news media think the world revolves around them - since how they react to something is obviously more important than anything else under the sun - they get quite exorcised whenever someone makes a public statement that strikes them as ill-considered.
Donald Trump does that a lot. He talks (or more often, tweets) about halting immigration by Muslims. And about imposing tarrifs on foreign goods. This past week, if you listen to the media, Trump fired the opening salvo in a new nuclear arms race:
I just made more popcorn ... it’s going to be a fattening winter.
A lot of people still have not figured Trump out yet. “The art of the deal”.
Exactly.
The Taiwan phone call was just staking out a forward position for negotiation back to the status quo ante, in which the Chinese have to give something up.
Trump took a no-risk forward move.
Brilliant.
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