Making a fortune is tied into the capacity to use everything in their power to gain the power at any cost. Somewhere in their limited thinking is the idea that if God didn't want them to be rich he would take their wealth away, so, of course, God must love them above the poor.
Money is the seed thought which they nourish and care for with every breath, every thought and every action. It is their value measurement, as in the value of something is in direct proportion to how much it costs. They will eschew beauty which is cheap in favor of expensive glitz which has no intrinsic value beyond the arbitrariness of labeling it expensive. They will purchase something for the creators name rather than any true value it will have. For example, they don't own art. They own "a Picasso". Or "a Rembrandt", etc.
They actually think of nothing else except money. It is their raison d'etre, and takes wings with their every spoken breath.
They do not trust anything or anyone who speaks of other things. And it's this commoness they share that keeps them in their narrow social circles. Even to the exclusion of people like pretenders such as Trump himself. His self worth is 100% tied into his money. It's almost the only thing he talks about or refers to. And it's the reason he exaggerates how much he has.
To me this is a very important factor which most people don't talk about. How money dictates your life. We know how the lack of money molds lives. Well it does the same when there is plenty of it in your life. Money is an incredibly insidious and important fact in our lives. Worshipping it isn't just done by the rich.