Is Trump changing positions, or is he negotiating?

He's not sure.

It's not easy as it looks

I think a lot of things he's said has been negotiation tactics and a lot of stuff has just been bullshite.

Mixed bag.

Maybe he was harsh on China to create leverage in negotiations. He changes his rhetoric and now they have abstained from voting in the UN, which was a huge surprise.

I think it's clear he's changing positions.

Are you referencing the WSJ piece? He's flip flopping like crazy because he doesn't have a clue what he's doing. This is what the learning curve looks like for somebody who's not in politics. Sometimes that's a good thing ("drain the swamp!" lol) but when you're forced to talk about things you don't really understand you're bound to change your mind after the fact, a lot.

I think his end goal will always be to obtain a solution. I don't expect him to just stop working on things if he doesn't get everything his way. I think some of his initial positions were also exaggerated to get the best deal also.

So I don't think he has necessarilly changed many of his positions. I think it is all part of the deal making with negotiation strategy and compromise to be successful.

He said the things he needed to get elected.

He is a politician, so much for draining the swamp

Is Trump changing positions or is CNN just focused on reporting everything in a negative way?

CNN would have done the same for Obama, right? Gitmo is gone, correct?

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Is Trump changing positions or

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You have to be a true believer to not believe this has happened.

The reason everyone thinks he is changing his position is because our stupid politicians would rather get all or nothing regardless of the division it creates or the progress it stops.

A change in position would be coming in and having such a hard line on every issue that he wasn't trying to make a deal. The core of his candidacy was that he was going to make deals and do them with an America First motivation.

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I tend to agree with this. I'm sure the presidency looks much different from the oval office than from behind a podium at a rally.

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The potshots he's taken on Twitter for the last 8 years have come back to bite him in the rear end a few times in the past few days.

Many people on this board are saying all of his hardline stances were just negotiating tactics, but they touted those stances all throughout the campaign, so I'm wondering if this is all just spin.

He's taken care of the SC, which is great, but he has to tackle healthcare and taxes - everything else is just fluff to me.