Trump’s dad rules are killing him

Somewhere I read that Trump’s father raised him with some strange principals: “I you get hit, hit back three times harder”, “Never, ever apologize”.

Based on the three first years of his term as president, we’ve seen these rules applied faithfully, over and over again, by Donald. The problem with them is that are ratcheting-up their author into a corner, from which there’s no exit in sight.

This short-term, bridge-burning strategy works well in unique transactions like many that have brought some success and much fame to the man, but would fail miserably in a repeat-business mode.

If I’m not mistaken a re-election is the essence of repeat business and Donald Trump hasn’t realized fully yet that his business-model is not built with repetition in mind...