He’s not a politician nor owned by any donors. Judge him by his enenmies—the media and the bought and paid for establishment (of both parties). As president, he will not be answerable to his donors, but to his voters. Who else in recent memory can say that?
He’s running for president. That makes him a politician.
Your premise that “all politicians except Trump are owned by donors” is spurious and unsubstantiated. Was Ronald Reagan “owned by donors?”
More than donors, those who run for president are owned by ideology. My ideology is conservative. What’s yours? More importantly, what’s Trump’s?
Big government populism of the brand Trump espouses is not the solution to our big government progressivism caused problems. Trump is hope and change with a hairpiece.