Trump: A One Percenter Against Armagideon?

The fact that the U.S. has been waging war in one place or the other ever since the end of WWII during both Republican and Democratic administrations, coupled with the fact that the financial and corporate elite, the Powers That Be (PTB), control the government, shows that the PTB are convinced that they need wars in order to maintain their power and profitability.  Hillary Clinton, a One Percenter by virtue of her and her husband's loyal service to the PTB, intends to continue PTB business as usual.

So what's with Trump?  He is definitely a One Percenter, and for decades has appeared to be the very face of the often hidden PTB, yet he is advocating an end to the wars of international intervention and regime change.  Well, Trump is a businessman, so I don't think his position is based on a selfless desire to relieve the burden from the downtrodden of the earth.  On the contrary, he must have determined that his businesses stand to gain more from a stable, peaceful world than from a world of chaos.

His positions on domestic issues are similarly self-interested.  Presumably, he wants to build a wall on the Mexican border because he doesn't think he'll need any low cost workers for the foreseeable future.  It has been recognized repeatedly over the last several decades that restrictions on illegal immigrants have been relaxed when the economy needs workers and tightened when there are fewer jobs available.  Trump's desire to build a permanent wall suggests that, what with all of the jobs off-shoring in recent years, he believes we will never again have more jobs than the current U.S. residents can handle.  He snottily responds to Black Lives Matter activists with the dismissive "all lives matter." Of course the life that matters most is his and he doesn't want to risk antagonizing any police or security personnel from whom he gets protection.  Trump wants to stop the expensive war-making and invest the savings at home.  "We've spent $4 trillion trying to topple various people.  If we could've spent that $4 trillion in the United States to fix our roads, our bridges and all of the other problems -- our airports and all of the other problems we've had -- we would've been a lot better off.  I can tell you that right now."

Trump wants to make America great again by turning it into a giant gated community with good security and spanking new infrastructure.