cutting taxes for the wealthy could risk damaging the populist image that Trump has cultivated.
It's never seemed to damage his image with his supporters before. He could hold them down and shit into their mouths and they'd find a reason to think it was an ok thing to do
When I was a kid, I was told that "The American Dream" was a house and two cars. At some point along the way, that morphed into "anyone can be a millionaire."