Project 2025.

Trump, personally?

He has never been loved. He desperately wants to be loved. But he has absolutely no idea what that means, and so nothing he does is working or can ever work. He thinks adulation from adoring fans is love. He thinks money is love. He thinks being powerful means people will love him, and that hurting other people makes him powerful. The "there are only winners and losers in life and to be a winner you need to make other people losers" thing he learned from his terrible father.

But since none of that is true he's got a gaping black hole inside him that never gets filled no matter how much he tries to cram these things into it.

If he were younger I'd have some vague slight hope that he might someday be able to recover from this. But it's far too late now, he's a broken husk of a human being that does nothing but hurt everyone around him. I hope he dies immediately, if not sooner.

In my opinion, personally, the latter, but some people in his administration, very much the former.

Pump and dump, baby. It is what he does.

Nah.

He desperately wanted to be POTUS again so he didnt go to jail.

Since then hes really just enriching himself generally.

I presume he would like to ensure he doesn't go to jail in the future somehow, but IDK if thats a specific end game or a general goal.

I bet hes asked doctors whether its possible to transplant him into Barron's body.

Make the rich richer. Easy.

Perhaps power itself is his endgame. Like Putin who he envies. Everything Trump does is to maintain and grow his power. This video was enlightening on the subject: https://youtu.be/1iZcXn8uDis

Orwell is quoted in the comments and is prophetical:

Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.

George Orwell, 1984

His endgame is to feed his ego. Anything else is just an accessory to that.

I’ll put it simply: he envies Putin

You ever met a narcissist? They have machinations while pursuing power, but rarely when weilding it

Both, and there's more than one end game because there's multiple factions behind Trump who have slightly different end games in mind. There is a shared purpose and common cause built up around Trump but also some fundamental tensions within the party about what the post-Constitutional order will look like once they've fully consolidated power.

Money, fame, access to higher, more depraved kind of pleasures... what do you think was and still is the endgame of aristocrats? These people don't care about their own children, why would you think they care about anyone besides themselves, in the basest way possible too? Have some discernment and remember everything that comes out of their mouth is spin. 👍

End game not so much, rather a tendency where the world around him reflects his inflated ego by leaving some sort of legacy bearing his name: a nobel price or resolving a major conflict or annexing some other nation.

In addition to what's been mentioned, he has certain protections as long as he's President.