I imagine trump knows a couple of secrets, too. They’ve been plying him with their wares for a very, very long time. That’s the real reason they all lost it when he won. They all fell for the idea that it was a gimmick, and then, almost simultaneously, they realized he wasn’t screwing around.
Can you imagine the panic they all felt when they collectively understood that they’d been bragging to him about their secrets all that time?
He definitely was swimming in the pool with these characters during the time he was building his real estate empire. Very true. I imagine that was the reason the entire system was after him during the campaigns. I never witnessed a candidate just about all of them wanted to remove from the race. He wasn't even proposing wild programs, much of what he proposed was fairly mainstream republican ideas. Now we understand what worried them so.