Is Trump's real agenda to monetize the fringe right wing base?

[greenmedic88]

Bandorr said:

greenmedic88 said:
He knows he's not going to win the general election. He has an exit plan in place that will minimize the damage to his brand; namely by claiming that the election process was rigged against him from the start with ample help from the media.

He's already monetizing through his campaign; he started his campaign self financed, renting his own properties to use for the campaign, paying himself the minimal on rent to cut costs until the campaign began running off of individual, GOP party and business interest contributions, at which point he raised the rent on his properties his campaign was using by multiple times over.

He's essentially using campaign contributions to recoup what he spent before receiving the GOP nomination in addition to redistributing portions of those party contributions to family members since they are campaign managers.

I'd hate to give him credit - but it is quite clever.

He gets his brand out there. The trump fans will absolutely pay an arm and a leg to stay at one of his hotels now. He gets to gloat over winning the nomination, and not give a damn about losing to "rigged elections".

He gets to say whatever he wants no matter if it makes sense or not. He won't ever reveal his tax returns, his wifes immigration visa/papers etc.

It was all upside for him. Plus he proved how easy it is to become the nominee on hate alone.

He's someone who puts almost half his net worth in his name brand alone. He claims to be worth close to 9bn, when most estimates have his assets closer to 4bn. 

He greatly overestimates the worth of most of his properties (take his golf courses for example) in comparison with assessors, yet underestimates their worth for the purpose of tax claims.