President Trump a dealmaker? Not yet

WHEN Donald Trump announced that he was running for US president, and during his ensuing campaign for the White House and in the immediate aftermath of his election victory, political scientists and presidential historians had tried to counter the gloom and doom that had engulfed members of the liberal political and intellectual elites by cheering them up with a historical analogy.

So you highly educated and smart guys, and well-bred and civilised guys in the media and the academia cannot stand that real-estate businessman from Queens, New York. He is a show-…