Was that a rhetorical question? That was a rhetorical question. In the land of Trump negotiation, you can - 1) Refuse to pay and find another sucker 2) Go bankrupt and beg to another bank 3) Move on to other things and sue anybody left over at your failures If the goal is "have a small pile of the large fortune you were born with" Trump is a hell of a negotiator. The problem is we're all living his failed business venture.That might explain why NK is at the table, but it sure doesn't explain why we are.
Trump is quite possibly the worst negotiator that has ever had a say in US foreign policy.
And when you compare his negotiation skills with his own assessment of his negotiation skills, I think you might break the Dunning-Kruger scale.
Our interests for the past ten years have been represented by this guy: I'm not a fan of Taleb, but Trump is a foreign policy Black Swan. If you had told me ten years ago that North Korea would be negotiating with Dennis Rodman and Donald Trump, I would have been unsurprised. If you had told me one of them had the launch codes, I would not have believed you.