A president who constantly looks for ways to monetize the presidency, who sells pardons for serious felonies (including pardoning the payment of restitution by convicted crooks to the victims of their crimes), and who even sells US foreign policy -- policies that might well lead to US Armed Forces and others being killed or badly wounded -- is hardly going to balk at selling "access" to himself.
In just a little over a year, while he destroys the economy for most Americans, and shifts the overall tax burden from the rich and super-rich to the middle class and poor -- Trump has abused his office to go from being a "mere" centimillionaire in January, 2025, to a multi-billionaire today ($6.5 billion as of March, 2026, according to Forbes),
It goes without saying that Donald Trump is far and away the most corrupt president in US history, and at least one of the most corrupt leaders to ever live. He doesn't even try to hide much of it, but simply acts as if there is no difference between being president of a family owned corporation and being president of the United States. Except that like an absolute monarch or dictator, he's not bound by any laws, and anyone with any power or responsibility to hold him to our laws -- whether in the Justice Dept, the Congress, or the Supreme Court -- works for him!
And even so, Trump's monumental corruption is still one of the least objectionable aspects of his presidency; paling in comparison to his destruction of democracy, his contempt for Constitutional principles and crackdown on civil liberty, his War on the Environment, and now his starting what promises to be a very long, deadly, destructive and expensive endless but pointless war with a large powerful country, without even bothering to tell Congress or the American people of his intention, never mind ask us if we wanted a fucking WAR WITH FUCKING IRAN...!