"As I wrote on the day of his inauguration, Mr. Trump is fundamentally an anti-American president. He has spoken for decades of the joy he takes in America’s destruction: whether bragging that the 9/11 attacks made his buildings look taller, cheerleading the 2007 housing crash and recession or stating in 2014 that, “You know what solves it? When the economy crashes, when the country goes to total hell and everything is a disaster. Then you’ll have a [chuckles], you know, you’ll have riots to go back to where we used to be when we were great.” "

This is precisely what Naomi Klein has written about in her books The Shock Doctrine and No Is Not Enough.  Trump and his cabinet of billionaires, each and every one a "fox in the henhouse", create and embrace chaos and destruction so as to better impose a neo-liberal agenda of cutting, slashing, and burning public institutions and public programs in order to line their own pockets and enrich the 1%.

Thank you for an excellent article.