Trump’s response stunned several of the executives in the room overlooking the ocean: You all are wealthy enough, he said, that you should raise $1 billion to return me to the White House. At the dinner, he vowed to immediately reverse dozens of President Biden’s environmental rules and policies and stop new ones from being enacted, according to people with knowledge of the meeting, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe a private conversation.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/09/trump-oil-industry-campaign-money/
It’s his plan regardless. Now he’s getting paid in advance.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/climate/trump-environment-rollbacks-list.html