Yep, he's an amoral opportunist and a lot of people are overcomplicating the simple by trying to discern his motivations.

MAGA affiliated billionaires functionally control the overwhelming majority of major media & information ecosystems (and even that has not yielded the kind of cultural consent they seek). Yet they're absolutely crashing out over being denied this latest bauble they covet.

Sorry that those unruly Palestine-solidarity protestors & lefty college students were so mean to your faves over their craven failures. But as it turns out, those leaders whose feelings you were so desperate to protect were not in fact in your corner like you condescendingly were claiming.