because I am a scorpion

You have to see what I am doing. I am unlocking deals that were made by people, these people were incompetent. I am not going to say that it fits within the realm of my Executive Order. We are going to allow 2,000 prisoners to come into our country and it is within the realm of my Executive Order? If that is the case my Executive Order does not mean anything Malcom [sic]. I look like a dope.

Trump is not a negotiator. He is a reneger. He has a long list of deals that he has come out ahead on by not fulfilling his end of the agreement. His primary goal is to keep face, and both negotiations demonstrate how important it is for him to not lose prestige.

He's basically saying "your position makes me look bad" to Nieto and "someone else's position makes me look bad" to Turnbull. That there are intricacies and demands that far eclipse the scope of Trump's prestige is not salient to Trump.

The surprising thing to me is how unsurprising these transcripts are. A halfway decent Markov bot with a decent seed could have generated Trump's side of the conversation.