There’s One Word for Trump’s Erratic Negotiating Strategy: “Stupid”

Source: CounterPunch
by Dean Baker

“Donald Trump is carrying through his campaign pledge in threatening every country in the world with big taxes on the goods we import (tariffs) from them. However, he does keep changing the size of the taxes he wants to hit us with and who will be most affected. … Many of his supporters boast about how Trump’s unpredictability is a brilliant negotiating strategy. The opposite is true. In planning long-term investment and trade relations, companies value stability. The last thing they want is to deal with a country where the rules change depending on what its leader last read on social media. This is exactly the image Trump is projecting to the world with his bizarre demands to our trading partners.” (01/28/25)

https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/01/28/theres-one-word-for-trumps-erratic-negotiating-strategy-stupid/