These past few days I've written over here that I think Trump operates in a grey area: he's enough of an insider to have become a billionaire, which is impossible unless you're willing to participate in "the game", but at the same time, not all insiders are at the same "level of access". Trump does have masters, but not the same Biden or any of the Neocon Republicans do, and not as deep or powerful inside of the enforcement apparatus (to call it somehow: the literal security apparatus of the State). Like all criminal organizations, the Corporate State has a fragile equilibrium of factions, relations of power and assigned places for every actor. If one oversteps, it's severely punished by the others.

For me, Trump absolutely is an outsider as far as some of the more powerful, inner circles are concerned. They simply cannot have him roaming in the White House, opening drawers and closets that contain stuff that is not for his eyes.