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White House pushing Sir Keir Starmer to make concessions on food standards
Donald Trump is demanding American chlorinated chicken be sold in British supermarkets.
The White House is pushing Sir Keir Starmer to make concessions on food standards in order to revive a transatlantic tech partnership that drastically collapsed on Tuesday.
Jamieson Greer, the US trade envoy, wants Britain to accept hormone-treated chicken and beef, a term he was not able to achieve when the wider US-UK trade deal was first signed in May.
“He is seeking to use the tech partnership as leverage on trade deal concessions he still wants but that didn’t get the first round,” a source close to the negotiations told The Telegraph.
The US pulled the tech prosperity agreement over complaints Britain’s Online Safety Act would police American AI companies. Washington is using this complaint in order to secure fresh compromises in its trade deal with London, The Telegraph understands.
Insiders say the tech agreement collapsed in part because of the absence of an ambassador to Washington, a post which has remained vacant since Lord Mandelson was fired in September over his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein.
Does anyone in Washington understand that a “deal” generally includes giving the other guy something they want, not just demanding things that you want?
The president is a convicted rapist. Any further questions?
No, he think that if you have power in a relationship, you get to dictate the terms of it. Without realizing the other party can just step away.
This explains why trump is so prominent in the epstein files; kids can’t just step away.
The USA has always handled deals more by bullying than by reciprocation, but Trump has made this worse because at least you’d get a stable arrangement out of it in the past. It’s clear to other countries now that if you give him anything he’ll just rip up the deal next week and demand more.
Trump always considered a “deal” to have a winner and a loser… an outcome where both parties are satisfied is not a proper deal in his mindset and he’ll look for excuses to be able to shout he’s been ripped off.
followed by him going on television asking who the hell made that deal it’s such a terrible deal only a sucker would have ever signed it… with his own damn signature.
and then somehow blaming Clinton, Biden, or for nostalgia, Obama.
No, obviously all the bad deals with his signature were made with an auto pen. Wait…
True enough. Used to be, we were the only game in town, and we knew it.
Our smarter presidents tried to make sure we remained the best option, or at least a good option. Trump, as you have noted, makes is the worst option.
This is why Trump is such a shit businessman and failed at EVERY thing he’s done. The ONLY reason he became the President is because someone else put him on TV.
Dude doesn’t have a clue how to successfully make a deal.
Art of the Deal
“You’re not holding any cards.”
The dealer deals the deal.
And the (white) house (ballroom) always wins.