Harrop: It's not votes or GOP support Trump seeks; it's profit
By Froma Harrop / Creators.com
Donald Trump’s approval numbers continue to crater. Even Republicans have cooled on the president’s performance. But the president shows no sign of noticing, nor is he changing his ways. Even his gaslighting has gone wan. He’s failed to make Americans believe that prices are going down when they’re clearly not.
What gives? Why isn’t he trying to win back the public’s love? Perhaps because he no longer cares. The only infrastructure he seems interested in building is his family fortune.
Trump charmed farmers into supporting him twice. He’s bankrupting them with his trade-war antics. Many farmers have finally turned on him, but so what? Trump’s not running again. He no longer needs their affection or their votes.
This ability to seduce then abandon goes way back. In 1995, Trump was a near-broke developer whose Atlantic City casinos were going under. He needed suckers to bail him out and found them through an initial public offering of Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts stock. Rubes buying into his spinner-of-gold act poured $140 million into his empty coffers. In 2004, burdened by debt and never turning a profit, Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts filed for bankruptcy. For every $10 that his marks invested at that stock sale, they had $1 left.
https://www.heraldnet.com/opinion/harrop-its-not-votes-or-gop-support-trump-seeks-its-profit/