Don should have gone into politics sooner and then just set up a grifting foundation.
He would have been a democrat.
As a center right national infrastructure advocate, that's fine with me.
Politics and then a grifting foundation is the preferred ascent to power plan/money laundering operation of your average Lib politician. So BAU. Don Trump would have been beloved across the whole of mainstream, all that matters is the (D) ProgLibDom. He could have rolled out a little ProgFascism to win the 'hold my nose' vote and dominated for decades. A real missed opportunity for Don on that one. Granted, later he would have had a tough sell into the all meltdown all the time white lib/Karen world.