The Art of the Un-Deal

The DSR Network

Chris Cotnoir

Government

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🗓️ 30 August 2018

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Donald Trump's track record as an international deal-maker is perfect. He still has not made one major deal of any sort anywhere with anyone (except maybe with a nice gentleman in Moscow, but we'll leave that be for now.). He has undone a bunch of deals--from the Paris Accord to TPP to the Iran nuclear deal. He has announced some deals that weren't really deals--from the "breakthrough" with North Korea to the "breakthrough with Europe" on trade to the "breakthrough" with Mexico on trade. And he has also promised some deals that never materialized--from getting Mexico to build the wall to a Middle East peace agreement. On this episode of Deep State Radio join David Sanger of the New York Times, Rosa Brooks of Georgetown University Law School and Evelyn Farkas of the Atlantic Council as they discuss why Donald Trump may be the worst dealmaker in modern American presidential history. Who could've predicted such a thing?! Tune in!Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/deepstateradio. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:47.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of Deep State Radio.
0:51.0	I am David Rothkoff. I am in Rhode Island on America's scenic Atlantic
0:56.0	coast during the last week of summertime here in Vermont, enjoying the Vermont summer as the oxycodone turns to OxyContin and the trees is David Sanger who is I don't know in his car parked on some scenic street I think.
1:20.0	In Alexandria, Virginia is Rosa Brooks of Georgetown University, and in Panama is the Atlantic
1:30.0	Council's somewhat ill but nonetheless lucid Evelyn Farkas.
1:36.5	You're still lucid, right?
1:37.5	Yes, I promise.
1:39.5	Okay.
1:40.5	So you know I wanted to talk a little bit about something that has become a trend within
1:47.0	Trump foreign policy and that is, and it's not something I've ever seen really before, which is announcing that
1:58.1	deals are done when the negotiations haven't even really started yet.
2:03.8	And thus putting yourself in just a terrible negotiating position
2:08.9	because the other side knows now you're sort of on the hook
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