“You don’t make deals without building relationships.”
Not necessarily,,there is that little thing called ‘leverage.’...Trump has spoken about it when dealing with Iran, China and Mexico. He isn’t talking about being nice when he demands deals from them.
Our Consitution gives Congress some leverage against the Executive branch, too. We have not seen much of it used in this Uniparty time we live in, but it remains there. If Trump tries to bully the establishment, they may just re-discover those parts of the Constitution.