It seems legitimately difficult to negotiate when the president doesn't care about the public, is uninterested in policy details, has no stable goals, doesn't empower his appointees to actually speak for him, and can change his mind about a bill based on cable news segments!
Do people still think Pelosi turned down an actual $1.8 trillion stimulus deal with Mnuchin that Trump would have signed or nah?
Some screengrabs criticizing the COVID relief package from a few of Trump's favorite Fox News shows from Monday night and Tuesday morning. By Tuesday night, he was publicly attacking it. 
A flavor of the coverage on Fox & Friends Tuesday.
https://twitter.com/revrrlewis/status/1341385729373577224
This is how we ended up in the longest federal shutdown in U.S. history, the president refusing to sign a bill his administration said he supported because his TV advisors opposed it. mediamatters.org/donald-trump/f…
(Sidebar: Trump ranted about a lot of different supposed problems with the bill, there's no real reason to believe that he'd veto the current legislation but support a version with $2,000 checks.)
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