No. of Recommendations: 5
The most plausible explanation is that Trump's entire business career has approached "deals" as if they are always zero-sum transactions: someone's a winner, and someone's a loser. There can't be a deal where both parties are winners. If the other party isn't being taken advantage of, then they're taking advantage of you.
This seems to be the most plausible explanation for everything about Trump. There is no compromise, there is only win or lose. If you do not win, you are a loser.
He lives in a black and white world. In that world, if he does not resoundingly win, he is a loser. He doesn't like being a loser. That is the keystone behind the phrase Everything Trump Touches Dies. It dies because he has to bleed it dry for him to win.
And what bigger thing is there to bleed dry than the United States of America?
--Peter
