We appear unable to learn a lesson

[T]hrough this episode involving Trump’s [casino] regulators from the past are lessons for his regulators of the present. As the latter calculate the advantages and downsides of challenging the most powerful elected official on the planet, they would be wise to recall that Atlantic City’s decision to save Trump was part of a broader effort to save the city itself. And it didn’t work.

  Politico

In fact, Trump did't just bleed his Casinos dry, he destroyed the city doing it.

I asked people who know Trump and know Atlantic City if they had any advice for Republicans currently in Congress.

“What they should be thinking about, in my opinion, is that if they think they’ve seen the worst, they’re wrong,” O’Donnell said. “This behavior, so to speak, this outrageousness, whatever you want to call it, this lack of loyalty, is going to escalate.”

“What you could say is, and which is true in Atlantic City, is you gave him a break,” said Simon. “And all he cared about was himself. And in the end, you could give him a break, if you’re a Republican, but he will do you in.”

“Anyone who thinks that Donald Trump is important to their long-term viability is either not very bright or kidding themselves,” O’Brien said. “He never shows any gratitude for the people who cut him slack. He just blames things on them.”/div>

Aside from taking issue with the statement that Trump is the most powerful elected official on the planet (he seems to have ceded power to unelected officials, but also elected - if corruptly - ones: Putin and Erdoğan), this is an interesting article about "the five people who could have stopped Trump."

  Check it out.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.