I’d never heard about Branson’s meeting. Wow:
https://www.virgin.com/richard-branson/meeting-donald-trump
(Warning: the last paragraph may induce tears…)
Of course @khyber900 is right. I came here to make much the same point, which most of us here realize: Trump is driven entirely by his base impulses, which he has also come to see as his key to political success. What other reason was there to reject Dems’ offer last year to give him his damn wall (or rather, to vote for the money; the stupid thing’ll never be built) in order to save the Dreamers? And of course they’d do the same in a heartbeat to get him to stop abusing desperate parents and kidnapping their kids. But then he and Stephen Goebbels and their cult couldn’t share the satisfaction of tormenting brown people and liberal snowflakes, which Bannon tells him is the key to electoral victory.
The political irony is that, far from diminishing them, IMO Trump could improve his party’s chances in November if he could table his venomous hatred long enough to take the Dems up on their offer and get all this behind him and remove a huge motivation for many people to turn out and vote D. (IIRC, his and the GOP’s poll numbers improved as Charlottesville and DACA, not just health care, dropped out of the headlines.) But he, and the other monsters behind this monstrous policy, just can’t control that venom; ridding us of the “infestation” is what drives them. Monsters.