WSJ’s Freeman: We Grind Our Teeth When Trump Says Nice Things About Dictators, But That’s the ‘Art of the Deal’

FREEMAN: "I think it's a good point. But as a sort of last 10 years of analyzing Trump, we’ve been thinking about this seriously, but not literally question. It makes a lot of us grind our teeth when we hear him say what appear to be nice things about dictators that he’s negotiating with, But while a lot of people in our industry kind of laugh about the art of the deal, I don't. I think you look at the Abraham Accords, you look at various achievements he has on the world stage over the last decade or so, and you take him seriously. So if this is the way he sets the table in these upcoming meetings for deals that serve the interests of the United States, I think we should all be open-minded about that. And his track record has some definite wins on it. And I also think it’s nice that we’re not looking at what we were in the last administration, where every time there would be a meeting with China, you were worried that the president was going to cut some insane climate deal that restricted the United States and that China wouldn’t abide anyway. So, in some ways this is good. In terms of playing on the right side of the field, I hope that the president urged Xi to free Jimmy Lai. Nothing, nothing would be a better demonstration of Xi Jinping's desire if he wants better relations with the West, if he wants to show he’s not a dictator, than to release Jimmy Lai, the journalist who's been wrongly imprisoned there."

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WSJ’s Freeman: We Grind Our Teeth When Trump Says Nice Things About Dictators, But That’s the ‘Art of the Deal’‘The rhetoric can be a little weird’News & PoliticsEXCERPT:FREEMAN: "I think it's a good point. But as a sort of last 10 years of analyzing Trump, we’ve been thinking about this seriously, but not literally question. It makes a lot of us grind our teeth when we hear him say what appear to be nice things about dictators that he’s negotiating with, But while a lot of people in our industry kind of laugh about the art of the deal, I don't. I think you look at the Abraham Accords, you look at various achievements he has on the world stage over the last decade or so, and you take him seriously. So if this is the way he sets the table in these upcoming meetings for deals that serve the interests of the United States, I think we should all be open-minded about that. And his track record has some definite wins on it. And I also think it’s nice that we’re not looking at what we were in the last administration, where every time there would be a meeting with China, you were worried that the president was going to cut some insane climate deal that restricted the United States and that China wouldn’t abide anyway. So, in some ways this is good. In terms of playing on the right side of the field, I hope that the president urged Xi to free Jimmy Lai. Nothing, nothing would be a better demonstration of Xi Jinping's desire if he wants better relations with the West, if he wants to show he’s not a dictator, than to release Jimmy Lai, the journalist who's been wrongly imprisoned there."Video filesFullCompactSort byDateSummaryRelevancePopularityPer page81216Audio filesFullCompactSort byDateSummaryRelevancePopularityPer page81216Recipient e-mailMessage (optional)Preview

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