Trump told them they could have whatever they wanted for $1bn. I don't think he got the full billion, but whatever they did spend was worth it (unless you have lungs and live on Earth).

https://archive.ph/oHw1E

Our government has been more or less openly for sale for a long time now, but he has really taken it to an extreme that I never thought I'd live to see in America.

You'd think that removing the weak deniability and unconvincing hand-waving covering for the outright bribery in the system would only result in increased outrage and demand for changes, but his supporters just don't care. They went from pretending to care about draining the swamp to supporting levels of open corruption you'd normally only see in third world countries.