Trump ‘dealism’ is about never having to admit you were wrong
The US president’s psychology and his trademark style of transactional, winners-and-losers statecraft do not exactly provide any kind of blueprint for American leadership.
“I never get too attached to one deal or one approach” – words attributed to a certain Donald J. Trump in 1987. “For starters, I keep a lot of balls in the air because most deals fall out, no matter how promising they seem at first.”
You might think it pointless to try to come up with answers to what exactly is going on in the mind of the US president by referring to a book ghostwritten for him some 38 years ago. And yet perusing through The Art of the Deal – as many people, friend and foe, appear to have been doing of late – is the closest you can get to making sense of Trump’s mindset.
