The whole thread is dumb.

Trump has a meeting with oil execs who appear luke warm to his notion of them investing in Venezuela.

We get a long, LONG series of diatribes and punditry from someone who evidently fancies themselves an expert on everything and who can apparently see into the future or something. Also, he's a mind-reader and knows what Trump and everyone else at the meeting was thinking.

Thinking outside of the box, as Trump often does, is forbidden.

Not just forbidden, the lefties don't even understand it.

Said board Nostradamus also believes that high powered presumably Machiavellian business people freely reveal their plans, goals, strategies, and tactics to the media, to their competitors, to the government, and to the general public.

A classic negotiating technique or let's say a business technique is to feign disinterest in a possible business idea,opportunity, resource, or acquisition target. No one wants to find themselves in a hotly contested auction environment.

Crying poor is also a way of trying to cadge tax breaks or other incentives from the government.

But aside from the ridiculously literal interpretation given by leftie "experts" to whatever they read in that morning's NY Times or WaPost, apparently they've never heard the notion of "floating a trial balloon" or "shifting the Overton window" or "running an idea up the flag and see who salutes."

That's bad. New, creative ideas are bad.

Yeah, that's the ticket. That's how Edison successfully developed the light bulb. He got it right on the very first try because he only tried the perfect idea that magically came to him without any effort.

Trial and error is for losers.

That's why Trump has no money and no success in any sphere of activity and the "internet experts" know everything.