If one concentrates on it a moment, “Big Money” has always done a pretty good job avoiding Trump, at least since Atlantic City, which seems to have been the lesson burned into the brains of the more sophisticated financiers. Mistakes like Atlantic City are of the type that takes a guy down from building “Taj Mahal” in Atlantic City to selling Trump Steaks and charging $30,000 in tuition for Trump University. After Atlantic City, Trump was done fishing with the sharks and looking more for nets of bait fish.

And Russians, but that’s another matter.

The point is, even after Trump won the nomination, big money largely stayed away. As president, it sure felt like most of the “big money” came from elsewhere. We have no proof, it just “felt like it.” But that was okay back then, he had lots of small-time donors picking up the slack, the MAGAs living paycheck to paycheck, helping him out. He doesn’t have as many of those anymore as he is less and less visible.

To the extent that big money ever had much to do with Trump, they are now pulling out in droves, watching the man devolve on live television (such as he did last night on OAN). It is like they figured out that Trump’s not in this to “do anything” other than to be “Donald Trump.” According to Mediaite:

Wealthy financiers such as Stephen Ross and Larry Ellison have instead opted to spend money on the GOP’s efforts to take back Congress during next year’s midterm elections, or have shown support for potential 2024 presidential candidates like Sens. Marco Rubio of Florida and Tim Scott of South Carolina.

Donors are also concerned about how Trump’s organization is spending the piles of money it has raised from smaller donations.

No shit? This is the guy whose campaign manager bragged about the $800 million campaign “Death Star” in March of 2020 and the same campaign that came so close to running out of money, completely, in September of 2020 that they had to commit near-criminal fraud to save themselves. Where did all that money go? It didn’t all go to the campaign, or at least it sure doesn’t “feel” like it.

“Big money, sophisticated people are just losing interest in this s–t show,” said an advisor to longtime Trump allies in Silicon Valley. Many donors are tired of seeing the former president use his resources on rallies during which he often makes false claims including that the election was stolen from him, this person said.

If it comes down to “rallies” or money, that’s going to be one hell of a call for Trump. Rallies are the opioid that makes it all worth it to a narcissist, but money is how Trump measures himself. If he has to give up rallies to get more money… wow, he’s in a tough spot. Actually, it doesn’t matter. He’s in a tough spot anyway. Big money has him figured out and it’s not for the better, not from Trump’s perspective.

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