If Trump had paid attention to history and the conclusion of WW1 and WW2 he would have understood that the “deal” comes AFTER the surrender, not before or instead of.
Think, The Germans in the railway carriage parked in a forest in France on 11/11/1918. Think, the Germans again at Reims in France 7/5/1945. Think, USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay 2/9/1945.
He should have adopted the idea of never-ending blitzkrieg, shock and awe and the more modern expression (which doesn’t mean what most people think) balls to the wall.
Or as I said in my post yesterday, pedal to the metal.
The bloom has definitley come off the rose. He has been the author of his own demise, he thought he was dealing in New York real estate but got played by the time-honoured strategy of stall and delay in a year of the mid-terms.