How can any productive customer-supplier relationship flourish with no basic trust?
During the first year, children are developing a sense of basic trust and attachment.
"No one has called for us to blow up the basic trust between citizens and government," he said in a recent speech.
"He has then destroyed the basic trust between the American people and its President."
Their investments are nightmares, and a basic trust in the system has been shattered.
And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn.
It is clear that while both sides, at bottom, want to keep talking, they still lack basic trust.
There is also a matter of basic public trust at stake.
New skills and basic trust in new processes take time to acquire.
This partnership can only work if it is based on shared principles, balance and a basic trust.