One of President Donald Trump ’s attacks on then-senator Marco Rubio during the 2016 Republican primary involved Rubio awkwardly drinking water during a national television address. The water bottle had a label on it, Trump kept pointing out. Trump’s objection was that Rubio was giving Poland Spring advertising without taking a cut.

It was an afterthought for Trump, but it was a telling one — and something we should remember as Trump turns the U.S. Treasury into a venture capitalist fund. Trump is the quid pro quo president. He doesn’t give anything without demanding something in return.

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