Make deal.
Don’t do your part of the deal.
The deal is retracted.
Art of the deal.
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That usually works for Trump though
I feel like it only worked as a Ponzi scheme in which the grifter has to keep up a bigger and bigger grift to avoid all the consequences.
I think it’s why he became president, it was either that or bankruptcy, then the second time it was either that or jail.
Basically he is hitting a ceiling as the grift can’t be expanded more than international trade.
It's working properly...
"Make deal" on a weekend.
Markets recover a bit.
Oops, no deal. Weekend though...
New "deal" next Friday to bolster the markets, since all this shit is made up.
I take it those Polymarket accounts still have a perfect record. How many billions have they stolen by now?
All of them
Trump is the dumbest president in history, and it's not even close. Corrupt doesn't mean smart.
Markets rally back to all time highs
Trump does something stupid
Markets sell off
Profit
Can it really be considered stupid when his closest allies are making millions/billions off of him?
Exactly, merely the necessary veneer of plausible deniability for the scheme to be successful.
The dipshits on Fox last night were making hilarious claims. This is the greatest military victory ever. Iran will never be able to rebuild their military.
Iran is playing Trump like a fiddle. They opened it just to put the full blame on Trump.
When will markets stop reacting to every one of his BS posts?
You still think markets are reactive and not meticulously controlled?
Well yeah, the Stock Market peaked yesterday, so we have to knock it down now, so we can ride it to the top again.
Literally in what fucking universe could anyone have thought that would fly. Obviously they're not gonna keep the straight open if theyre under naval blockade
I only noticed now but this slob is being compared to the devil. And he constantly makes the shitiest deals. One would say he is obsessed with winning deals.
The actual devil would be better at this
But really, isn't the Devil also a pretty shitty dealmaker? I mean, how much is a soul worth nowadays? Supply is running at an all-time high, quality is definitely going down.
The only thing that made his business viable was that it was a monopsony, with many potential sellers but only one buyer. But today's market is much more competitive, with social networks and AI enabling a veritable marketplace that will suck your soul into the abyss little by little without so much as a contract written in your own blood.
The time of the Devil roaming the world at leisure, negotiating precious souls of saints, artists and great men is over. Those luxury, collector souls have no market now.
They are definately being smart embracing his chaos. He is used to coming in and making a mess and having other folks clean it up for him. Iran has not reason to maintain stability the way like china or europe do. Thing is he learned that from putin but it works when your a minor player. Doing it with the us is just insanity.
