I don’t think he can be happy about the way things are going. He can have fleeting days of triumph when a scheme to pressure or dupe his way into still more money and power at someone else’s expense is successful. He can keep score of his money and leverage and deals and connections and gloat from time to time, but…

This is what happens when a bunch of old dudes want to get in a dick-measuring contest, but no one wants to actually drop their drawers and show off their dead flaccid wieners.