Trump is fooking killing it. This is from the x post: Trump’s Art of the Deal Just Reshaped the Middle East—Forever. A $2 TRILLION deal spree. His Pakistan play left diplomats stunned. 3 overlooked commercial strategies by the media. While the media obsesses over personalities, they missed the real story: Trump is using business deals as tools of foreign policy. It’s called Commercial Diplomacy—and it’s shaking up global politics like never before. 2. Strategy #1: Deals > Dogma Forget lectures on democracy. Trump bets on business first, politics later. And the numbers? Staggering: Saudi Arabia: $600B investment and $142B in U.S. military hardware Qatar: $243B total deal, including a $96B Boeing aircraft order UAE: $14.5B aircraft deal This isn't diplomacy as usual; it's cash-first geopolitics. It’s not just about money. These deals flip decades of U.S. foreign policy on its head. Trump isn’t focused on military alliances or shared values — he’s doing business first. And that’s opening doors that were once firmly shut. Most shocking example? Syria. Decades of U.S. diplomacy said: No democracy, no deal. Trump said: No profit, no point. And suddenly, Syria is back in the game. Strategy #2: Business, not bureaucracy. Trump didn’t send diplomats — he sent dealmakers. Guys like Howard Lutnick and Steven Witkoff aren’t from the State Department. They’re business heavyweights who know how markets move and money talks. Strategy #3: Engaging problematic partners when economics make sense. This is where Trump's Pakistan move shocked diplomats. Despite hosting 15 US-recognized terrorist groups... Trump entertained a zero-tariff trade What makes this so controversial? It risks straining America's friendship with India, the world's third-largest economy by purchasing power. Yet, Trump signaled that economic interests can override entrenched security concerns. The China approach follows the same pattern. Despite being America's chief competitor, Trump secured a historic trade deal reducing tariffs. The message: Even rivals can be partners when mutual profit is on the table. What most miss: • Commercial diplomacy isn't just a strategy, it's a philosophical shift. • It prioritizes tangible results over principles. • Prosperity over ideology. • Deals over dogma. The potential advantages are significant: • Driving job creation and economic growth • Collaborating with more partners, free from ideology • Quickly adapting to global changes • Enhancing leverage in regions dominated by rivals Trump redefined U.S. foreign policy: Commerce > Conflict No more "values first" diplomacy. It's now about deals, dollars, and disruption. Can it truly secure America's global leadership? Time will tell.
Wandering around the Middle East collecting grift for your family is not proper diplomacy. So tell us, how many tariff deals did Trump close already? Oh yeah, the number is ZERO.
These fools drank the Koolaid and want everyone to know in detail how they did it. They ignore the data like the US economy going from robust to negative in just a few short months. This insistence on believing in bs and not hard data is what occurred during Covid in the US. And after the facts came out post-pandemic we still have fools like Tsing Tao denying the data to this day. Watch in 3 years when Trump leaves a gigantic govt deficit and everyone goes quiet on his complete failure to do what he promised. He did it term one and his supporters were too busy getting distracted by election fraud misinformation to even notice.
To some Americans, facts haven't mattered since Trump got elected term one. They prefer to believe the preacher and ignore the data.
You so fucking stupid that you cannot realize that the primary purpose of the tariffs is for negotiating leverage. For the leverage to work, it cannot be a bluff.
At this point. ZERO tariffs deals. Trump said he would have 90 deals in 90 days. The actual number is ZERO. And at this point the world is laughing at Trump caving in to everyone.