He’ll be the first to say he’s a Master Dealmaker. And looking at the money he’s made there’s not much doubt he’s correct.

But will a gift for dealmaking lead Donald Trump to the White House?

When making a deal to buy or sell real estate, no doubt Donald Trump asked the fellow sitting across the table for more than Trump ever expected to get – then accepted a counter-offer for less and still made millions. It was shrewd dealmaking.

Last winter during the Primary Donald Trump said he was going to deport every illegal alien. He said that was the right thing to do. It would cure the problem. But he now says deporting every illegal immigrant may not be the answer – and calls his new stand a ‘softening.’

But what works in real estate doesn’t necessarily work in a Presidential campaign: Instead of a shrewd negotiator Trump suddenly looks like a politician changing with the wind – like a candidate telling people who support deporting illegal immigrants one thing while telling voters who oppose deportation something else.

Trump’s deals have made him wealthy. He sees no problem when he says a parcel of real-estate’s worth a billion dollars one day then turns around and agrees it’s worth a hundred million dollars less the next day. That’s savvy negotiating. But when a Presidential candidate says the right cure for a problem is to deport every illegal immigrant one day then makes a new deal the next day and changes his stand voters look at him and ask, Why should we believe a word he says?