Donald Trump is reported to be furious that Ukraine has signed a security-for-minerals deal with a consortium of Europe countries. His favoured negotiating tactics of unpredictability, rudeness, arrogance and trash-talk have not paid off on this occasion. Â
Sources close to the President say that he is ‘incandescent with rage’ and that he will ‘make Europe pay’. His main criticism is that they have not respected the negotiation steps set out in his seminal book, ‘The Art of the Deal’. He is quoted, by an unreliable source, as saying that ‘those Europeans just don’t understand how capitalism works’.
Donald Trump is now planning punitive sanctions against Europe for making him look like a twat