@NinaBernstein1 TBH I don't think its helpful to claim that Trump is demented, or deranged. It's not really true (yet) and it just makes his base draw closer around him, driven by the effects of identity fusion.

He is immensely self serving, narcissistic and greedy and has hit upon the highly effective techniques of keeping himself in the news by continually shocking people with his utterances and keeping opponents off-balance by being entirely unreliable in character and in action.

And here we are again, giving him oxygen.

And yes, the ultra rich are given access because they can give Trump what he wants. Money, and the power that flows from it.

But IMO the really dangerous people are the ideologues who have entered a symbiotic relationship with Trump. Miller, Yarvin, Vought, Roberts, Wiles et al.

He lets them operate largely out of sight, but they are the true danger to your democracy. They are what changed between 45 and 47.

Just my two cents.