Trump's bully-and-threaten approach to dealmaking is not so artful

Jonathan Ernst/Reuters Donald Trump's negotiating strategy didn't serve him well in the private sector. It's serving him even less well in government and as president. There will be occasions where Trump’s tactic of hostage-taking and threatening and generally being too much of a pain to be worth fighting against will work. But on average, it will not. Donald Trump has a negotiating tactic he really likes: Threaten to do something someone else will really hate, and then offer to stop if they g...