I genuinely don’t understand how this man has a reputation for deal making. Here we have two public examples of reactions to his pressure: Columbia caved, Harvard fought. (Similar: EU caved, China fought.)
Yet there is practically no difference in how they’re being treated. If anything, the capitulator in both examples has been treated worse.
ZeroGravitas · 19h ago
It's simple: he used the money he inherited to hire a ghost writer to pen a book called "The Art of the Deal" while he lost more of his dad's money on bad deals.
simmerup · 20h ago
> the capitulator in both examples has been treated worse
That's because he's not a deal maker, he's just a narcissist bully
sherdil2022 · 19h ago
When will this end? Being the world’s most powerful person or world’s richest person isn’t enough to satiate - what would?
Reminds me of “... if you're not enough without it, youll never be enough with it." - Cool Runnings (1993)
SpicyLemonZest · 19h ago
He has a reputation for making deals where people have to pay him lots of money, and he's continued to be successful in that regard. Quite a lot of people and companies are paying him bribes that would have been unthinkable 6 months ago.
nickpeterson · 19h ago
Can Columbia just put out a press release that they are accredited and say the administration is mistaken? What even is truth at this point?
Yet there is practically no difference in how they’re being treated. If anything, the capitulator in both examples has been treated worse.
That's because he's not a deal maker, he's just a narcissist bully
Reminds me of “... if you're not enough without it, youll never be enough with it." - Cool Runnings (1993)