I genuinely don’t understand how this man has a reputation for deal making. Here we have two public examples of reactions to his pressure: Columbia caved, Harvard fought. (Similar: EU caved, China fought.)

Yet there is practically no difference in how they’re being treated. If anything, the capitulator in both examples has been treated worse.

It's simple: he used the money he inherited to hire a ghost writer to pen a book called "The Art of the Deal" while he lost more of his dad's money on bad deals.

He has a reputation for making deals where people have to pay him lots of money, and he's continued to be successful in that regard. Quite a lot of people and companies are paying him bribes that would have been unthinkable 6 months ago.

> the capitulator in both examples has been treated worse

That's because he's not a deal maker, he's just a narcissist bully

When will this end? Being the world’s most powerful person or world’s richest person isn’t enough to satiate - what would?

Reminds me of “... if you're not enough without it, youll never be enough with it." - Cool Runnings (1993)

Can Columbia just put out a press release that they are accredited and say the administration is mistaken? What even is truth at this point?