TRUMP CAN'T MAKE A DEAL: U.S. TRIES AND FAILS WITH IRAN, NORTH KOREA AND CHINA

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"President Donald Trump has struggled to come up with a foreign policy win and has instead allowed hawkish voices within his administration to further escalate global tensions as ambitious diplomatic initiatives failed, experts say.

At a time when Trump was defending his Art of the Deal persona from a damning New York Times report showing the celebrity businessman-turned-politician lost up to $1 billion during his 1980s to 1990s heyday as a real estate titan, the Republican leader was also facing diplomatic troubles, as promises to reshape the U.S. relationship with Iran, North Korea and China collapsed.

On both the campaign trail and since taking office, the self-styled dealmaker vowed to deliver big results with regard to each of these three nations, leading to high hopes among a significant chunk of his constituency.


Trump pledged to deliver a better nuclear deal with Tehran than the historic one struck by his predecessor, achieve an unprecedented peace based on denuclearization with Pyongyang and hammer out a more just trade policy with Beijing. In the past week alone, however, these powers only hardened their positions and the current state of affairs bore little resemblance to the vision the Trump administration has sought.

"I think as President Trump's tax returns are showing, he is not the deal-maker he has portrayed himself to be," Tom Collina, policy director of the Ploughshares Fund think tank, told Newsweek."

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-cant-make-deal-iran-korea-china-1421328