Media strategist: Trump not listening to others

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00:00But I also thought one word stood out to me in that, fair deals. He says, they want fair deals.

00:06And I thought you said earlier, is this the error of flexibility for Donald Trump? And maybe

00:12this is a sign that he's looking to be fair and flexible, got the conversation on tariffs

00:17started, and now he's kind of rolling back a little bit.

00:22But what would have been so much nicer is if he had laid out a strategy. He had come forward

00:29address the nation, talked about what it is that he's trying to achieve.

00:33The economists and the analysts for days have been saying, what's the end game? Is it to get

00:39everybody to come to the table and kiss the ring? Or is it for the tariffs? And that's the most

00:46important thing. And I think that why he's probably not a good politician is because politicians need

00:55to be consistent, they need to be manipulated a little bit by their PR people, and they need

01:01to listen to the people around him. And this is one of the accusations that gets leveled against

01:05him, is that he doesn't listen to the people around him.