He has been buttering up religious minorities and supporters of Ahok.
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Isolated at home and in the West, he is buttering up new allies.
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One reason is that there is more to lobbying than buttering up the administration.
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The buttering-up of Trump is not, viewed in isolation, the worst thing in the world.
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Leading both deals: JPMorgan Chase, whose CEO, Jamie Dimon, has been buttering up WeWork executives for years.
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But success in art seems to be a lot more about knowing and buttering up a few people.
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Given SoftBank's enduring desire to buy T-Mobile, Son's interest in buttering up the deregulation-friendly incoming president is obvious.
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The choice of the new governor of Inner Mongolia, for example, looks like a case of buttering up a powerful local family.
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MPs will have to spend the summer buttering up local activists, rather than winning over floating voters (or heading to the beach).
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The last big tech summit was reportedly spent buttering up Trump's ego in order to get him to listen to the most basic issues.
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Mr Fernandes may have hoped that he could improve AirAsia's lot at Kuala Lumpur International Airport by buttering up those he assumed would win.
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Doling out over-the-top compliments and buttering up your boss with afternoon coffee runs won't win you brownie points in the long run.
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Mr Trump has since tried buttering up some of the main union bosses, by inviting them to meetings at which he has reiterated his campaign pledges.
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Another read might be from the playbook of Trump's previous life: the businessman buttering up a prospective partner in pursuit of something further down the line.
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Trump's CPAC address was aimed at firing up his base, while his address to a joint session of Congress was aimed at buttering up the pundit class.
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When he ran for president, he resisted any form of democratic politics, whether delivering speeches, buttering up newspaper editors or (until the end) promising jobs to supporters.
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Buttering up voters in the swing state of Nevada, Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine poked fun at Donald Trump for his insistence on pronouncing the state's name wrong.
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His gyrations over China -- from fury to adopting a softly softly approach and buttering up Chinese President Xi Jinping -- have left his strategy on the trade war mired in confusion.
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Among this year's first arrivals were the Stallone sisters, this year's Miss Golden Globes, shepherded about by their father Sylvester's old-school, no-nonsense publicist; no buttering up of reporters.
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We all know that lobbyists use their moneyed connections to influence legislation, corrupting the voice of the people and buttering up lawmakers with luxurious steak dinners in dark, smoky rooms, right?
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Rather than a classic, New-England style hotdog bun with soft sides that are perfect for buttering up, the McDonald's version was served on a kind of mini sub or hoagie roll.
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Through mealy-mouthed "the people just want to get to know you better" buttering up, he managed to bring these topics up with the president, and then just let him off the hook.
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She followed that up with a campaign appearance in suburban Pennsylvania, "introducing" her father, but really she was buttering up the independent female voters that the campaign is targeting and who Trump has, up until now, alienated.
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To be sure, President Obama was condemned in 2015 for similarly buttering up Xi, throwing him a lavish state dinner, even as the Chinese government was in the midst of a crackdown critics were calling the worst since the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre.
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With less than a year left in the president's tenure, some in the White House now wonder if it would have been better to embrace his outsider demeanor entirely, to let Obama be Obama from the start and drop any pretense of buttering up those on Capitol Hill or playing the Washington game.
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But unless you're a serious enough fan of Oprah Winfrey (Ultimate Dream Mum/Unofficial Ruler of the World) to see her on her Australia and New Zealand wide arena tour An Evening With Oprah, you probably won't know that Fuzzy can now add "Basically Oprah's Hype Woman" to her CV. Other than buttering up the crowd every night as Oprah's resident tour DJ, Fuzzy also played privately for Oprah and some of her VIP fans.
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But the news workers who thrive on information more than insult already know the answer — they're a perfect distraction from real events hatched in Mr. Trump's new administration, like the embarrassing retreat of his labor secretary nominee from Senate scrutiny, the dismissal of his national security adviser for secretly buttering up Russian adversaries and the courts' unceremonious spiking of Mr. Trump's unconstitutional attempt to choke off Middle East immigration with a photo-op stroke of his pen.
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Chok-sae promises her famous millet wine for buttering up a certain Skipper Jang in Haenam. When the staff of East Gate arrive, the crew refuse to give up the ship because they were not paid by Hwang. Man-deok negotiates the crew's pay out of Hwang's rental fee that would be provided every time Hwang's ship was chosen as the tribute transport vessel if they get the transport contract. Chok-sae's millet wine persuades Jang.
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"According to Lewis (1974), an older substratum of these oral traditions dates to conflicts between the ancient Oghuz and their Turkish rivals in Central Asia (the Pecheneks and the Kipchaks), but this substratum has been clothed in references to the 14th-century campaigns of the Akkoyunlu Confederation of Turkic tribes against the Georgians, the Abkhaz, and the Greeks in Trebizond." Cemal Kafadar agrees that it was no earlier than the 15th century since "the author is buttering up both the Akkoyunlu and the Ottoman rulers". However, in his history of the Ottoman Empire, Stanford Jay Shaw (1977) dates it in the 14th century.
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But > the Catholic locals are surly at best to the mostly Protestant crew. To fix > things, Stephen Maturin does some judicious buttering up and Aubrey reunites > with Samuel Mputa, the region's Papal Nuncio and, incidentally, one of his > "indiscretions" from his days as "a long-legged youth" serving on the South > African station. The typescript of the third chapter ends mid-sentence, but > the handwritten manuscript continues on to include a duel between Maturin > and a romantic rival, leaving readers begging for more. Alas, this > fragmentary but worthy addition to the series is truly the end of a literary > era, leaving only readers' imaginations to fill in the rest of the story.
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Since the author is buttering up both the Aq Qoyunlu and Ottoman rulers, it has been suggested that the composition belongs to someone living between the Aq Qoyunlu and Ottoman Empire. Geoffery Lewis believes an older substratum of these oral traditions dates to conflicts between the ancient Oghuz and their Turkish rivals in Central Asia (the Pechenegs and the Kipchaks), however this substratum has been clothed in references to the 14th-century campaigns of the Aq Qoyunlu Confederation of Turkic tribes against the Georgians, the Abkhaz, and the Greeks in Trabzon. The 16th-century poet, Muhammed Fuzuli produced his timeless philosophical and lyrical Qazals in Arabic, Persian, and Azerbaijani. Benefiting immensely from the fine literary traditions of his environment, and building upon the legacy of his predecessors, Fizuli was to become the leading literary figure of his society.
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