Although obviously Trump is not averse to profiting from the campaign, I think he is mainly in it for the publicity, for the ego boost of seeing his name on page 1 of virtually every newspaper in the land every day. This morning’s Votemaster included speculation on his resigning before taking office.
There is a slight worry in my mind about what he will do if he loses. He will inevitably be labeled a loser, not an epithet he will find pleasing.
“It’s a rigged system!”
Some call him a fifth columist, some call him an* agent provocateur,* some just call him a troll. But he does seem to be playing with–toying with?–the not-so-grand-old-party.
If that were his goal he is doing a really bad job of it. If you really had such a scheme then you would want to start out with a really competitive campaign so as to increase the odds for the bets against yourself. Then at the last minute you crash your campaign and reap the profits. Trump has been running a shamble campaign from the beginning, with current odds about 5 to 1 against his election. That isn’t going to make any money.
Unless of course both Clinton and Trump are in on this scheme and have bet heavily against Trump. Then on October 11th, Clinton reveals that she sold secrets to the Chinese, personally planned the Benghazi attacks, and really was behind Vince Fosters death, Trump wins, they both clean up at twenty to one odds, and Trump pardons Clinton as his first act as president.
You joke, but it is conceivable that that is actually the plan. :eek:
And some call him Maurice, cause he speaks of the pompatus of love.
Let me tell you, there is no problem with my pompatus. Do you know what I mean? It’s yoooge.
Interesting article update: Michael Wolff’s ‘Fire and Fury’: Inside Trump’s White House
TLDR: The Trump campaign was a real-life version of The Producers; They expected to gain by losing and ended up being exposed by winning.
It’s worth reading in its entirety though.
The plan was for trump to show how harmful the Republican agenda actually is by actually implementing it.
Filth Tweeter.
This is the way the world ends.
This is the way the world ends.
This is the way the world ends.
Not with a bang, but a twitter.
(Apologies to T. S. Eliot)
Nostradamus never foresaw this Hilter*.
Or maybe he did. 
(*Not a typo.)
D’oh…I typoed myself anyway…it was Hister, wasn’t it?
He’s not a fifth columnist, just a useful idiot.
Yeahbut, traditionally the useful idiots weren’t actual, you know…idiots.
I do remember an interview with Bannon, where he said he was an anarchist. No shit, eh?
Trump is more like 3D Chess, except he’s never played chess, can’t spell “chess” and possibly can’t even read “chess.”
No, you got it right the first time.