Soros told the Independent he has rooted for Trump’s downfall, and the president is succeeding in granting him his wish. “I have put my faith in Trump to destroy himself, and he has exceeded my wildest expectations,” Soros said in the interview published Monday. In response to the interviewer’s remark about Trump not representing the “values of an open and free society,” Soros said it’s a “weakness that I hope will not last very long.”