The art of dealing with Donald Trump? Don't fight him alone | Jonathan Freedland

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

71% : Trump has spoken warmly of the art of renegotiation.
54% : All eyes were on Rome, where Trump was upstaged by one of the few global players who can outdo him when it comes to putting on a show.
51% : Any wobbling on that could have doubly cost him, first by angering UK consumers with the prospect of supermarket shelves brimming with US chlorinated chicken and, second, by jeopardising the trade in food with the EU.
51% : Even after this deal with Trump, the UK and EU markets remain compatible.
49% : " The result is that Trump ceded to Starmer most of what Britain wanted, while accepting the mere promise of later discussion on the things the US sought in return.
45% : Don't think Trump is not simultaneously wondering how he can use that whole white-smoke thing - perhaps to signal his winning of a constitutionally prohibited third term in 2028 - and worrying that Leo XIV is a serious rival for the commodity he craves more than any other: attention.
41% : Applied to world trade, that would mean a shift away from the every-man-for-himself approach that led to Thursday's handshakes in the Oval Office, and towards a combined endeavour in which the UK joins forces with, say, Canada and Australia and, obviously, its nearest and biggest trading partner, the EU, to oppose Trump and his prosperity-destroying, self-harming tariffs.
38% : Harvard took a different approach, refusing to accept government intrusion and suing the administration over threats to its funding.
35% : Within hours, more than 150 other colleges joined together to denounce Trump, uniting to prevent an "unprecedented" attack on their independence.
34% : Here it's instructive to learn the lesson of the major US universities, on whom Trump has declared war, slashing their funding and seeking to control their teaching.
29% : Trade expert David Henig says that the stats Trump trumpeted on Thursday were "mostly invented" and that the likely gains for the UK will be "microscopic", compared with the 4% of GDP lost through Brexit.
27% : But a lasting win will only come by joining forces with other nations to resist the US president's entire destructive agenda Donald Trump wanted Thursday, like every day, to be all about him.
24% : And a reminder: this is Donald Trump we're talking about.
22% : Even the nature of the agreement can be cast as a win for Starmer - and yet more proof that Trump, the self-proclaimed maestro of the deal, is, in fact, a terrible negotiator.

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