Lutnick advised von der Leyen that attacking Trump energizes him and he responds twice as hard, like a centrifuge.
“That explains a lot. Right? So he's like a centrifuge. You you go in and goes zing and it goes back at you faster.”
“So if you want to negotiate with him, I said, Use your superpower. She says, What's that? I go, You're a woman of great authority.”
Lutnick advised von der Leyen not to attack Trump directly because confrontation charges him up.
“You know, that's too much. Like don't say no. Don't do that. Because if you go at Donald Trump, he's going to win.”
Lutnick argues failed negotiations should end proposals to weaken something unspecified.
“The breakdown of these negotiations should put an end to proposals to weaken”
Lutnick argues Canada manufactured new demands like a poison pill to justify ending negotiations.
“You know, when someone doesn't want the deal, they make up and say, oh, I'll do the deal with you only if you wear green.”
Lutnick accuses Canada of manufacturing last-minute demands as a pretext to exit a deal they no longer wanted.
“You know, when someone doesn't want the deal, they make up and say, oh, I'll do the deal with you only if you wear green. And you're like, but I'm wearing I'm not wearing green.”