Trump Thinks He Can Do Literally Anything and Somehow That’s the Plan

“Literally anything.” That’s allegedly what Susie Wiles — Trump’s chief of staff — says he believes, which is the kind of sentence you hear right before a yacht hits a kindergarten.

A Berkeley Matrix analysis is stacking up the greatest hits of alleged Trump-world monetization and vengeance: $90 million in “frivolous lawsuit” settlements with tech companies, foreign licensing deals that smell like pay-to-play Febreze, a reported $400 million plane floating around like a midlife crisis with wings, and claims ranging from retribution prosecutions to “selling pardons.”

The piece isn’t pretending this is subtle. The pitch is basically: if you’ve ever wondered what happens when one man treats the U.S. government like a Patreon with nuclear codes, congratulations, you’re living in the pilot episode.

And the $400M plane thing? Translation: even bribery has to do content now. Not a briefcase. Not a brown envelope. A whole aircraft, like we’re speedrunning monarchy with better upholstery.

Meanwhile… the alleged retribution-prosecution chatter is the part everyone pretends is “just rhetoric” until it’s your job, your contract, your nonprofit, or your cousin’s public defender budget getting kneecapped for vibes.

If the incentive structure is “pay up or get crushed,” the bill doesn’t land on Trump’s desk. It lands on yours — higher costs, shakier rights, and an economy where access is the real currency.