Originally Posted by Bladewire

Notice how Trump keeps self inflicting pain?

These are not the traits of a leader, these are the traits of a self defeating masochist.

Examples

1) creates a bargaining sceraio where he has no room to bargain.

2) creates a scenario where he controls the suffering of millions of people but can't ease the suffering because he has boxed himself in.

3) "punishes" his advesary in a way that he has to maintain the same punishment to avoid losing respect.

The list goes on