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5. Simply put, he doesn't believe in win-win.

Reply to Karadeniz (Reply #3)

Tue Aug 19, 2025, 11:37 AM

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He believes the only sign of a successful negotiation is if the other parties are unhappy. If they're still happy, you didn't bargain hard enough. Find some way to screw then until they're unhappy.

So if a contractor negotiates a reasonable price for their work, Donnie just refuses to pay, makes them sue to collect, then settles for a fraction. He needed to create an image of himself as a successful real estate developer in order to keep attracting contractors willing to work with him because his business model is to burn them all, very few would ever work for him twice.

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At best, Donnie has demonstrated he's a very weak negotiator (russia/ukraine) [View all] unblock Tuesday OP

Did he get anything from yesterday's meeting? Srkdqltr Tuesday #1

He's never come out on top of a negotiation in his life not once Eliot Rosewater Tuesday #2

Hes never negotiated anything in his life. The art of the deal was to lie, threaten, Karadeniz Tuesday #3

And Tony Schwartz wrote the book. no_hypocrisy Tuesday #4

Simply put, he doesn't believe in win-win. unblock Tuesday #5

Putin showed donnie some of the tapes he has. republianmushroom Tuesday #6