how does one negotiate with dems who have declared that they will vote against everything he proposes?
They offered him 25 billion dollars for his fence, his negotiating skills brought that down to 1.3 billion.
He did get NATO to pay up,
NATO is sticking to the agreement that they made long before Trump even announced his run for the office. Nothing has changed.
he got China and the EU to fix some of the trade imbalances,
Has he now...
U.S. trade gap with China reaches all-time high under Trump
"The U.S. trade deficit in goods with China set a new record during President Donald Trump’s second year in office, despite his efforts to rein in what the administration views as Beijing's trade transgressions. The trade gap rose to $419.2 billion in 2018, from the previous record of $375.5 billion in 2017, a Commerce Department report released Wednesday showed."
he opened dialog with NK.
And what has come of that? Trump has canceled a major training exercise involving SK and the US and other nations. Trump has stopped further sanctions against NK. And what has Trump gotten from NK...a nice photo Op.
He got hostages released. I would say that those are pretty good negotiations.
NK released 10 hostages during the Obama years, does that mean you think he is a good negotiator as well?