>> The President has a long history of overstating things Also known in negotiation as "anchoring" - you give people a crazy, exaggerated version of what you w

>> The President has a long history of overstating things Also known in negotiation as "anchoring" - you give people a crazy, exaggerated version of what you want, then you tone it down and easily get what you really wanted to begin with. Anyone who ever participated in any kind of a business negotiation would recognize this immediately. But 99.99% of people haven't negotiated anything ever in their lives, so they don't. People treat Trump as this linear simpleton, and he plays along, but he's not.