If Trump Is Such A Great Negotiator....

[usedtobedemgurl]

Why does he have to add to the defense budget? Wouldn't all of his tough negotiating, and looking out for the U.S., result in so much savings that we would still come out ahead even with military expansion? Just saying.

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Trump family will heavily invest in defense industry stock soon.

[MineralMan]

2. His "greatness" at anything exists only in a small lobe somewhere

in his brain.

[Xipe Totec]

6. A legend in his own mind nt

[2naSalit]

3. Well...

when your negotiating power is by way of bullying and abusive tactics, then I guess you have to have a lot of lawyers, guns and money.

[Turbineguy]

4. Now wait a minute!

Let's not get all logicy here.

[smirkymonkey]

5. Because he has a small penis

...or something.

[0rganism]

7. any claim by Trump, particularly concerning his own merits, can be regarded as an outright lie

or at least, as they now call it, an "alternative fact"

however, that doesn't mean such untruths are meaningless or completely discountable, as they give insight into how a would-be dictator intends to proceed and behave in the future.

if Trump tells us he is a Great Negotiator, whether his arrangements are in any way an improvement over what preceded them or not, later on he will tell us he has negotiated Great Deals Much Better Than What We Had Before, and behave as if those deals are Great. any facts which run counter to such assertions will be portrayed as falsehoods, and any media that publishes said facts will be called out as an enemy of the people.

this process has already begun.