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“The Art of the Deal”: U.K. Edition



“I have made the tough decisions, always with an eye toward the bottom line. Perhaps it's time America was run like a business”. Donald Trump A recent article by Judi McLeod here at the Canada Free Press reported that the United Kingdom is considering a petition to exclude Donald Trump from entering the U.K. and it’s quite popular:
“According to the British government, the e-petition surged to be the biggest “evah” within mere days of being posted. Not even Christmas, New Years, or epic floods that forced Brits out of their homes could keep a staggering 568,000 from calling for Trump to be barred from ever stepping foot on their Island Nation.”
Whether it is designed to affect the popularity of Donald Trump, or simply a gimmick designed to boost the popularity of M.P.s in the U.K., it is obvious no one who is in charge has thought this idiocy through. Let us suppose Mr. Trump becomes “President Trump”. Think of how this newly elected President will deal with it. First, the obvious point to make is President Trump will not, by a long shot, be the normal breed of President that politicians around the world have had dealings with before. He is unassailably a very successful business man who cut his teeth in the trenches of high level business negotiation. This is not the same handshake photo op form of negotiation that politicians are used to. This is tactically a totally different animal. It is warfare fought with charts, graphs, figures, contracts, and egos. Large egos. But more importantly at the level of business negotiation President Trump will have been used to, a politician is nothing but a slab of meat ready to be devoured by a tiger with a bad comb over. Everything in the business world of negotiation is negotiable. And every advantage that can be used to get what one wants is in play. That being said, the United Kingdom unwittingly gave a theoretical President Trump a “YUGE” advantage over the United Kingdom in any trade pact, meeting, or talk that involves the United States. And he only has to make one simple demand:
“All negotiations between the United States and its ally, the United Kingdom, must be held in the United Kingdom and will be attended by me, the President of the United States.”

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The hard bargaining simplicity of this one demand puts our theoretical President Trump and the United States he is negotiating for in the driver’s seat. Imagine the position the Ol’Chaps in the United Kingdom will find themselves in. They have a restriction that states President Trump cannot be allowed into the United Kingdom. President Trump has already announced that he must be present and that any talk or negotiations must take place in the United Kingdom. What a little cock-up the United Kingdom has created for itself. President Trump and the United States are now in a great position to demand concessions for agreeing to move the talks to another location, like the United States for instance. Or, President Trump can stand his ground and watch the British media have a jolly good time at the expense of any M.P. who has his or her name connected to the petition. Either way, President Trump will be grinning like a Cheshire cat all the while giving the United Kingdom a rather embarrassing two-fingered salute that they must grumblingly accept. Second, one of the most basic rules of business negotiation is to get the other party to say “yes” to something. A future President Trump will have done that. Either the United Kingdom will have to say “yes” to move the talks another location, or the United Kingdom will have to say “yes” to the fact that the ban on President Trump is a rather big cock-up and will have to be removed, most likely by the very people who smugly put it in place. Whatever the decision, our pretend President Trump and the United States will have started out with a win before the negotiation’s itinerary has even been printed. As we say in the United States: “How did that work out for ya?” "Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game." Donald Trump


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A once fat man still smoking his pipe and living in Maine with two beautiful ladies of which he is lucky to call one wife and the other daughter.

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