Why people recommend it
Trump: The Art of the Deal by Donald J. Trump and Tony Schwartz is a 1987 memoir and business guide that chronicles Trump's career and outlines his negotiation tactics and corporate philosophy. The book frequently enters political discourse on podcasts like Breaking Points, where hosts repeatedly referenced the title to analyze real-world political developments. Commentators observed that supporters would likely invoke the book in memes to explain shifting positions on international trade policy and tariffs, or suggested that Trump would skillfully frame future diplomatic agreements using the exact messaging associated with his famous publishing milestone. On Timcast IRL, a speaker used the phrase textbook art of the deal to describe a high-stakes tariff strategy. Similarly, on Modern Wisdom, Piers Morgan referenced the text while interviewing a guest, quoting a specific principle from Trump's book regarding retaliation to explain his overarching reaction style and public persona. Across these programs, commentators and analysts utilize the concepts found within the book as a familiar framework for interpreting modern political negotiations, aggressive corporate maneuvering, and executive leadership strategies in real time.
Who recommended it
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“I guess they'll go back to from the this will create jobs. Now they go back to Art of the Deal in the the meme that shows him going back and forth.”
“If Trump ultimately gets back into the something very similar to the original Obama JCPOA deal, I have no doubt he can message it as like this is totally different and this is way better and art of the deal or whatever.”
“So, but even if Trump rolls back on even more of the tariffs and makes all these deals and declares victory, art of the deal, whatever.”
“This is literally textbook art of the deal.”
“You're talking about Ryan. That was just art of the deal. That was the plan the whole time. So, I don't know what you're talking There's no market negotiation. There was no market. Yeah. Anyway, go ahead. I don't know. I don't know. I mean, the art of the deal, too, is like do something crazy and make everybody think”
“Was it the art of the deal?”
“Oh, well, I guess it's art of the deal.”
“um you you take away that side and you take away the thing that Trump talks about in his book The Art of the deal where he says if someone punches you in the face you hit him back 10 times harder”
“oh do you guys know Trump had a book called The Art of the comeback from 1997 preent”
“the guy who wrote the art of the deal with him a guy called tony schwartz once said that this man doesn't know the difference between truth and lie”
“He told the court that he had not read any of Trump's books, but had seen quotes from The Art of the Deal. Now, gentlemen, if this is Trump's last best hope to stop a guilty verdict, I don't like his chances.”
“He was doing little fist bumps. If you read 'Art of the Deal' too, you said.”
“One of the great lessons I learned was from a book by Tony Schwartz called the election game and then how to win. And I'm sorry. I won't get the name, the title right now, I'm just gonna give you the wrong title. Anyway, Tony Schwartz was a great radio consultant who then went into politics. He did a lots”
“...but a little less than 1 .4 billion for about 55 miles of fencing on the 2,000m border art of the deal”
“Mick I got him right where they want him is is it this is the art of the deal”
“many of the children are in a detention center that includes a gigantic mural of Donald Trump next to a quote from art of the deal”
“I mean the guy wrote a book about it”
“This is an even better book than the odd of the deal”