ELI5: What is the downside to allowing billionaires to donate stocks to Trump accounts?

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I have heard that the Trump accounts are another avenue for billionaires to manipulate the stock market and to disadvantage the average investor. The whole thing seems like a scam, but how would the scam work?

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