I had decided before reading this article how I would respond, but you preempted that response reducing it down to a simple “YES”!! Trump’s first love is himself. His second love is money, in the service of himself.
Simple. He stole that vast amount of government property because he saw dollar value in it, just as you say.
The traitorous son-of -a-bitch has already long ago sold his soul, and stood ready to sell out our nation to the highest bidder. He must rot in prison, even if the Secret Service has to take turns sending a guy to watch over him weekly. Should be easy. He must be assigned solitary confinement “for his safety”.