No way would I tell my mother to pass up $1.8 mil. And remember, she moved of the pig sty and her son put it on the market for 5 mil but wound up selling it at auction for approx. $500,000 and everyone netted “0”.
Who cares? Everything you say is true--she was, financially speaking, stupid to turn down his offer, and ended up selling the house for much less than he offered. But none of that gave Trump any right to use his government cronies to take her property and give it to him. (Also, it's worth noting that when Trump and the CRDA tried to use eminent domain to take the house, the compensation would have been much less than Trump's original offer - somewhere around 250K).
I think you're projecting your obsession with money on her. Freedom includes the right to be let alone. I don't know how old you are, but I can tell you, from personal experience, that the elderly do not like to move. Too many memories, the comfort of the familiar and so on. So why did she mention ever greater amounts of money? Perhaps she was afraid that if she said it wasn't a matter of money, and she just wanted to stay put, they'd try to have her committed to the asylum, since everyone *knows* it's always about the money.
Not everyone wants to drastically change his surroundings in exchange for large numbers of digits in his bank account. She obviously had enough for food and shelter, and the reality is that as people get older, they stop obsessing about material wealth. Because you can't take it with you, and their children are fully-grown and can fend for themselves.