Is Trump's campaign secretly a TV scheme?

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By Candy Woodall
on June 17, 2016 at 8:05 AM

Donald Trump's campaign to "make America great again" may really be about making himself richer, reports say.

According to Vanity Fair and New York Magazine, Trump is eyeing the launch of a "mini media conglomerate."

... Trump, this person close to the matter suggests, has become irked by his ability to create revenue for other media organizations without being able to take a cut himself. Such a situation "brings him to the conclusion that he has the business acumen and the ratings for his own network." Trump has "gotten the bug," according to this person. "So now he wants to figure out if he can monetize it" ...

... Perhaps he grasps a truth the official Republican Party has refused to acknowledge: The conservative base is a subculture. It is a numerically large subculture, but a subculture nonetheless. It rejects the moral values of the larger society and wallows within its own imaginary world, in which Barack Obama is a foreign-born agent of anti-American interests, global warming is a lie concocted by greedy scientists or perhaps the Chinese, and hordes of foreigners are rendering the United States unrecognizable. The greater the gulf between the reality perceived by Trump's supporters and the reality experienced by the rest of the world, the worse for the Republican Party, but all the more profitable for the media that can cater to their delusions. Figures like Rupert Murdoch, Ann Coulter, and Rush Limbaugh have grown rich doing so. Trump may have figured out that there's no reason he should work for them when he can cut out the middleman ...

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