The new playbook - Crazy Thing Cycle 1. Trump does a crazy thing 2. Prime Minister of Israel Netanyahu flies over to the Whitehouse for an emergency visit to try and protect Israel from the crazy thing 3. The Prime Minister of Japan calls Trump to negotiate, has a productive discussion about the crazy thing 4. UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer would like to have a discussion with Trump to negotiate. Wants to position the UK in a moderate position halfway between the crazy thing and normal things, to act as a bridge 5. European Union says the crazy thing is crazy and it will consider its options 6. China wants to do a crazy thing of its own, to show it cannot be bullied 7. Russia stays quite, because Russia seems to benefit from the crazy thing 8. American business leaders all want to speak to Trump to convince him that the crazy thing is crazy 9. Trump backs down and announces he will stop the crazy thing. It was all a bluff! Art Of The Deal. Trump supporters say it was all 5D chess and somehow worked