Trump can learn the art of winning friends

Donald Trump boasts about his book The Art of the Deal… but he would do well to look through the seminal book by salesmanship guru Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People.

The US president needs much more instruction in the Carnegie way, especially after alienating most of the world – and turning long-time friends into enemies – with his peculiar foreign and tariff policies.

Nowhere is that more apparent than north of Trump’s border, in Canada – the country he seems to believe is gagging to become the 51st state of the United States.

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Canadians have just elected Liberal Party leader Mark Carney as their prime minister in what is being described as one of the most amazing political turnarounds in modern political history.

Liberals were all but dead and buried – and Trump’s rhetoric, as espoused by right-wing Canadian politician Pierre Poilievre, looked to be gaining ground.

Until, that is, Trump touched all Canadians on their patriotic studio. Canada’s people have united to fight the naked greed and aggression from south of the border, but Carney’s victory goes further, because it has dealt a body blow to conservative politics.

People have seen Trump’s ideology in action – and they don’t like it.

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