There's a point in the business world where the level you're on is so out of this world that it becomes incoherent and another language to the common businessperson. That level is incredibly tough to reach and once you're there, you cease to be a human and are instead an absolute beast mode businessman.
One of the few savants in our modern-day business world is our President. It's really strange having a business savant as a President because usually, you'd want someone with foreign policy experience or perhaps a history of diplomacy or holding office. But in this case, having a beast mode businessman as a President has paid dividends beyond our wildest dreams.
There was the government shutdown right after his party loses the house, making someone else pay for your giant fence, and who can forget fooling everyone by pretending to want to buy Greenland. The latest case of the business savant flexing his business acumen is by publicly canceling a secret meeting with the Taliban at Camp David.
"Unbeknownst to almost everyone, the major Taliban leaders and, separately, the President of Afghanistan, were going to secretly meet with me at Camp David on Sunday. They were coming to the United States tonight. Unfortunately, in order to build false leverage, they admitted to an attack in Kabul that killed one of our great great soldiers, and 11 other people. I immediately cancelled the meeting and called off peace negotiations. What kind of people would kill so many in order to seemingly strengthen their bargaining position? They didn’t, they only made it worse! If they cannot agree to a ceasefire during these very important peace talks, and would even kill 12 innocent people, then they probably don’t have the power to negotiate a meaningful agreement anyway. How many more decades are they willing to fight?"In all seriousness, peace negotiations are great. That should be something we as a country engage in. Where the beast mode status for negotiating goes down in flames is when you begin to publicly praise enemies we're negotiating with, see Vlad Putin or Kim Jong-un. One of the President's key business flexes is either berating or stooping down and defending dictators or generic leaders we're trying to do business with. Some might say its an idiot's play and embarrassing, I go the other way. I don't believe it's brazen enough.
Donald Trump | Source - where else he tweeted it out
He was so proud of keeping the meeting a secret for longer than five minutes, he started off his tweet by saying "Unbeknownst to almost everyone". I vaguely remember a rant in one of the 2016 election debates where he went on a wild tangent about secret meetings and how we would never know all of his secret meetings because they were secret. He then canceled a secret meeting with a brutal enemy via Twitter, the ultimate flex.
Another level of this deal that most wouldn't see as sane is inviting the Taliban to Camp David. Most would probably say this is foolish on the surface, in fact, nearly everyone would probably say this is insane. But that's the type of tactics you can't learn anywhere else except Trump University. Inviting a horrible enemy that's killed countless numbers of your people and you've been at war with since 2001 to your country is just a ruse. He was never actually going to have them to Camp David.
If a deal was going to get done, he would have had them come to Mar-a-Lago and spend money at his resort before doing business, the Trump way.