‘Dealmaker’ Trump Frustrated By Inability to Strike Deals
www.thedailybeast.com
At a private meeting with donors, the president admitted his failure to secure the deals he promised keeps him up at night.

Donald Trump, who publicly touts himself as a “dealmaker-in-chief,” is privately upset at his failure to strike deals to stop the two wars he has promised to end, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal.

At a closed-door meeting with top donors at Mar-a-Lago last week, Trump admitted that the frustration he feels from his inability to broker peace between Russia and Ukraine keeps him up at night, people in the room told the WSJ.

He said that Russian President Vladimir Putin, who Trump has frequently claimed is negotiating in good faith, has been driving an especially hard bargain. Putin wants “the whole thing,” Trump said, referring to Ukraine.

  • the Howling North@lemmy.caEnglish
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    4 days ago

    In a statement to the Journal, White House Deputy Press Secretary Anna Kelly said that Trump had been “laser-focused on delivering peace around the world and stopping bad actors from doing harm to Americans and our allies.”

    Horse shit. Why’d he stop efforts to curb Russian cyber crimes then?

    • futatorius@lemm.ee
      1·
      3 days ago

      The only way Trump is “laser-focused” is that he gets distracted when his handlers use a laser pointer around him.

    • BlackSheep@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      3 days ago

      “…doing harm to Americans and our allies.” Canadian here. Excuse me??? (no explanation needed)