The one wonderful thing I'm finding about the criminal chutzpah Trump and party engender, is the deftness with which, so emboldened, they manage to say and do things that wind up fucking them in the ass. Its a gift that keeps on giving
Trump and Party have realized that they can get away with just about anything they have an itch for. Their operating words are arrogance and spite. Their operating attitude is "if you don't like it too bad, our supporters gave us carte blanche so shove it."
And that right there is the key to everything that gave Trump his ability to drain that swamp he so eloquently kept referring to and turn it into a vacation resort for the biggest group of corporate crooks and cronies our nation have ever witnessed writ large: his supporters that would see him burn the nation down into ashes because they needed to punish the gov't for all of their problems and suffering. They are cheering Trump on for his friendship with Putin. They are whooping it up because Trump trashed the G7 summit and gave them the chubby middle finger. They are ecstatic that Trump is forcing the world to pay attention to him (and them) and they see that they are, through Trump, finally getting the attention they are due......no matter how much damage it causes the nation.
Their motivation, their raison d'etre? If they have to suffer, so should we all. And Trump is doing a wonderful job of it. He gets to keep his job, they get to have their revenge.