Sunday, November 20, 2016

JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TRUMP IS ACCUSED OF NEVER LISTENING TO ANYBODY - BUT HOW DO SPEND DECADES NEGOTIATING DEALS WITH PEOPLE YOU NEVER LISTEN TO?


COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE BY RUPERT CORNWELL IN THE INDEPENDENT


"Donald Trump has never listened to anybody in his entire life – why would he start now?"

Oh, please, you do not make $8 billion doing scores and scores of big business deals, face-to-face with other tough, smart people without ever listening to them!

That is simply ridiculous on the face of it.

But the fact that he is tough in his positions is an immensely important merit when you are dealing with Admirals, Generals, and the heads of vast international corporations.

Obama has proved pathetically weak and ineffective, an echo chamber for the views of a small coterie of others who are dangerous and not well informed. He is a total failure and has killed hundreds of thousands of people.

I think any open-minded reader can appreciate that.

It is almost beyond me how Rupert Cornwell spends time cooking up slop like this, serving it, and retaining any self-respect.