Playing Games, and Dealing

PRESIDENT TRUMP IS A MAN who knows ow to make a deal. As he instructs in his seminal work "The Art of the Deal", never appear to be overly eager to make a deal (whether or not, presumably, one actually is overly eager), because if you do, you'r dead. Gee, we hadn't even thought of that, had we? Accordingly, Trump nearly died recently, as he promised that we would protect the North Korean dictator, make North Korea filthy rich, and grace the country with an opportunity to became a beneficiary of the Trump brad, perhaps through real estate transactions, if only the RNK would immediately, unilaterally, and precipitously eliminate its entire nuclear arsenal, under strict American supervision, post haste. The U.S. would be allowed to retain its nuclear stockpile. Who wouldn't go for that? The don had spoken. A deal nobody could refuse. Then, after his excellency Kim Jong Un accused vice president Pence of being a "dummy" for mentioning on FOX network that the North Korean scenario would perhaps replicate the Libyan outcome, the one in which dictator agrees to eliminate his atomic bombs, and is then removed from power with American assistance, and murdered, the great wheeler dealer withdrew the carrot, and replaced it wit the stick, in a politely written letter to "his excellency" aka "little rocket man" which canceled the planned summit meeting between the two leaders, and reminded the little rocket man his excellency that he, the don, had in his possession the greatest nuclear bomb collection imaginable, and was not afraid to use it. Absolutely brilliant. A demonstration of supreme negotiational genius, New York mafia style. The don is as good as his word, however good that might be on any given day, but it only gets better. The next day, the White House, the world's most loquacious edifice, announced that a summit meeting and a bargain were still possible, even probably, but the big man tipped his hand a bit, reminding us that "everyone plays games". He should know. After all, he's the expert.