Also factor in that Trump has decades of experience in getting free media coverage, though not nearly as intense as now or during the campaign.
The media also made big bucks through higher ratings. A symbiotic relationship.
Indeed. It seems the talents of a highly successful real estate operator are precisely what the nation needed People say it proves we needed a businessman. No. Romney is a successful businessman. We need a particular type of businessman.Men in Trump’s line tend to be pretty sleazy but those get rich but not nearly so rich as DJT. Chicanery gets a smart one so far but there is a limit and that is when there are too many paid off pols and gangsters and somebody else gets arrested and rats them out.