Trump has always been able to "buy his way" out of trouble. Even when he was in serious danger of losing Trump Tower, the banks decided it was too much of an expensive White Elephant to actually foreclose and make him vacate.
He's a rich self entitled jerk who has never actually been punished, and serves no apparent us to society at large. But he thinks he's the King of the World. (Until his meetings with Putin. Watch his body language when the two are in public. Trump looks like a scared little todie.