This resonated with lots of Americans, who resented the ecosystem of interest groups rigging government in their favor: corrupt officials, revolving-door lobbyists, palm-greasing executives and the network of pseudo-think tanks and analysts funded by industries trying to pass off propaganda as impartial research.
In other words, those who use money and access to accumulate more money and access.
It's been hard to square these promises with Trump's recent interest in commuting the prison sentence of pay-for-play poster child Rod Blagojevich, the corrupt former Illinois governor who tried to sell Barack Obama's vacated Senate seat. Or Trump's appointment of so many industry executives and lobbyists to senior government positions.