A month ago, I was reading about President Trump’s continuing efforts to broker deals in the Ukraine-Russian war, the Hamas hostage situation, and numerous tariff negotiations. It occurred to me that Trump is doing the kinds of things he had been doing for 40-plus years, but in a different arena.

Trump started a ‘yuuugely’ successful real estate and business development career by putting together deals – often difficult deals that seemed improbable. Unlikely deals. He had a knack for turning the improbable into reality.

Now, he is still putting together deals — but on a national and international stage.

Under Trump’s recent predecessors – Biden, Obama, Bush 43, Clinton, and Bush 41 – we did not think of them as dealmakers, and we did not think of foreign policy and tariffs as arenas for

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