I think his overall scheme is to remove the income tax. If he can reduce the government's functions, as he's doing, and increase government income from tariffs, which will be like a national sales tax, or even value added tax, then to his thinking he can abolish the IRS.
Trump also glories in destruction and cruelty. He likes it, and it's easy to do if you hire the right people.
Trump is also inspired by the mafia, whose organization resembles medieval Europe or Asia. Lords gain land by force and acquire vassals - lesser lords - who are allowed to govern their fiefs by pledging fealty to the lord. When he has the threat of tariffs, the subservient laws of industry, or the leaders of other countries which he views as less powerful, come to him personally to beg favors, and to pledge loyalty and to give payoffs in hidden ways.
Don't worry, he is out to monetize his position, with Putin being his model. I've heard it said that Putin demands from the Russian oligarchs a personal 50% share of their businesses, in order for them to continue alive and in business. As a result, he might be the richest man in the world. That's Trump's ultimate model.
Trump's political model is Orban, who took a democracy and overturned it into tyranny.
Trump's view of national social structure is of a small number of aristocrats at the top, subservient to him as king, a reduced middle class, and a very extensive starving class.
That's all.
Budd Shenkin
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