{"id":136393,"date":"2018-05-11T09:04:07","date_gmt":"2018-05-11T15:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=136393"},"modified":"2018-05-11T12:03:45","modified_gmt":"2018-05-11T18:03:45","slug":"the-trump-of-the-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/11\/the-trump-of-the-deal.html","title":{"rendered":"The Trump of the Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

So basically Trump demonstrated leadership by not<\/i> engaging with Iran, by avoiding negotiations with our frenemies China and Russia, and getting our actual European allies<\/i> to agree to all sorts of concessions and<\/i> come supplicate themselves to keep the deal in place, only to throw them under the bus.<\/p>\n

It has been said by many others before me, but Trump could not be doing more to destroy American influence and global power if he were an actual Russian agent. This man’s narcissistic buffoonery will take decades<\/i> to recover from, if ever.<\/p>\n


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\n‘Defective at its core’: How Trump opted to scrap Iran deal<\/a><\/span>
\nWASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 It was all there on paper in black and white, down to the precise number of centrifuges: the terms of a potential “fix” that President Donald Trump had demanded<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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So basically Trump demonstrated leadership by not engaging with Iran, by avoiding negotiations with our frenemies China and Russia, and getting our actual European allies to agree to all sorts of concessions and come supplicate themselves to keep the deal in place, only to throw them under the bus. It has been said by many … Continue reading “The Trump of the Deal”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,10,349,380,1071],"tags":[1599,1349,1077],"class_list":["post-136393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-geopolitical-brouhaha","category-military","category-nationalism-exceptionalism","category-trump","tag-diplomacy","tag-iran","tag-trump"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/trump-making-a-point.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":133906,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/07\/19\/trump-re-certifies-the-iran-nuclear-deal-is-going-okay.html","url_meta":{"origin":136393,"position":0},"title":"Trump re-certifies the Iran nuclear deal is going okay","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 19-Jul-17 3:42pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Despite calling it the worst deal ever, dumb, dangerous, the prelude to nuclear holocaust, and his number one priority to repeal upon assuming office, the President has acquiesced to all his top national security advisers, agreeing that Iran is honoring the nuclear deal they signed with the US and other\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":132142,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/01\/people-are-becoming-concerned-that-trump-might-do-what-he-said-hell-do.html","url_meta":{"origin":136393,"position":1},"title":"People are becoming concerned that Trump might do what he said he'll do","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 1-Dec-16 10:45pm","format":false,"excerpt":"To the point that the head of the CIA is now publicly warning the President-Elect that his oft-promised scrapping of the Iran nuclear accord would be a huge mistake, no matter what his Iran-hating advisers are advising.Ah, well, not to worry -- I believe that Trump will be able to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":136223,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/05\/the-ad-hominem-president.html","url_meta":{"origin":136393,"position":2},"title":"The Ad Hominem President","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 5-May-18 3:25pm","format":false,"excerpt":"It's long been obvious that, rhetorically, Trump is completely comfortable with attacking the character, background, or physical appearance of individuals he doesn't like, rather than opposing their positions with reasoned argument. 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