Imagine a large sandbox where children play together. Then one big bully and his cronies show up to stomp all the sand castles and confiscate the shovels and buckets, saying his dad owns the playground. If a kid gives him a nickel, the kid gets the tools back. Nobody has a good time. Kids stop showing up. They meet somewhere else now. Everyone hates that bully. The bully doesn‘t care because he got a few nickels out of burning these bridges.

Trump is a playground bully who uses his position to bully people into making him gifts. And he probably thinks he‘s very clever doing that. He is perfectly aware his actions are destroying trillions of dollars in economic damages but the occasional bribe here and deal there have made him a billionaire. For all he cares the USA can burn to the ground along with the rest of the world. He‘s getting his bag like the criminal he is.