{"id":138998,"date":"2019-06-03T23:58:12","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T05:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=138998"},"modified":"2019-06-03T23:58:12","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T05:58:12","slug":"the-art-of-the-deal-breaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/06\/03\/the-art-of-the-deal-breaking.html","title":{"rendered":"The Art of the Deal-Breaking"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">How can the Brits possibly trust a potential future deal with the guy who says he&#39;d walk away from any deal he didn&#39;t like? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Egf0IEfj9W\">https:\/\/t.co\/Egf0IEfj9W<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ***Dave Hill (@Three_Star_Dave) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Three_Star_Dave\/status\/1135269858176724993?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 2, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>How can the Brits possibly trust a potential future deal with the guy who says he&#8217;d walk away from any deal he didn&#8217;t like? https:\/\/t.co\/Egf0IEfj9W<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Trump advises the Brits to ditch the EU without a deal, but then suggests he has a great deal for them.<\/p>\n<p>Why would anyone trust someone who suggests that deals can and should be broken if you don&#8217;t like them to make a deal with you that you can count on?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump is an unreliable advisor, because he&#8217;s an unreliable person.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135057,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_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":[78,10,1071],"tags":[723,1077],"class_list":["post-138998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tweets","category-geopolitical-brouhaha","category-trump","tag-nt","tag-trump"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Trump-smug.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":138998,"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 &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":136393,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/11\/the-trump-of-the-deal.html","url_meta":{"origin":138998,"position":1},"title":"The Trump of the Deal","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 11-May-18 9:04am","format":false,"excerpt":"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. 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