Well, howdy there, Internet people, it's Bell again.

So today, we're going to talk about Trump's negotiators getting trumped with China, and how sometimes passed his prologue.

There are a bunch of criticisms about Trump that seem silly at first, until you see how they affect real developments.

Trump's use of social media is often criticized, and to many it comes off as something

kind of minor that doesn't really matter and shouldn't be counted as a reason to oppose Trump.

But what if his social media posts undermine U.S. policy? And to the Republicans

watching, he often undermines his own policies. When Trump's negotiators are working on a negotiation,

Trump has a habit of removing their leverage in the middle of negotiations. The most dramatic and probably the most important

was during his first term when he kept tweeting how badly he wanted the U.S. out of Afghanistan.

His negotiators then had zero leverage in their discussions with opposition forces in the country,

because those forces

already saw the president say the U.S. was leaving. The negotiators couldn't say, if you don't

comply with this, we can't leave, because Trump had already expressed how badly he wanted to

leave.

At that moment, the fall of Afghanistan's national government was guaranteed.

The Taliban didn't have to worry about the U.S. anymore.

They could focus on organizing for the withdrawal and the move to retake the country.

And that's exactly what they did.

Entering preliminary negotiations with China over the trade war,

Trump decided to announce that tariffs of 80% on China seemed okay to him.

His negotiators lost half their leverage before they ever even really started negotiating.

They can't get anything, not even goodwill, in exchange for the 65% he surrendered.

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