And yet it proved to be Juncker, of all people, who managed to tackle what Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron have both failed to achieve -- rein Trump in.
Maybe, just maybe, that’s because Merkel and Macron actually were trying to rein Trump in and stopped when that didn’t work, whereas Juncker gave Trump what he wanted after first trying to rein him in. Trump acts like a New York businessman (New York lawyers are the same way). He starts with hard positions far away from what the other side thinks it can tolerate and then negotiates to a midpoint where Trump has more than he did before and the other side has less, but more than it feared it would have based on Trump’s starting position.
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Maybe, just maybe, that’s because Merkel and Macron actually were trying to rein Trump in and stopped when that didn’t work, whereas Juncker gave Trump what he wanted after first trying to rein him in. Trump acts like a New York businessman (New York lawyers are the same way). He starts with hard positions far away from what the other side thinks it can tolerate and then negotiates to a midpoint where Trump has more than he did before and the other side has less, but more than it feared it would have based on Trump’s starting position.