Simple solution, in his mind he thinks of himself as kingly, above the law, by creating chaos and fear of his own making, he creates a false sense of security that he and he alone can reign in peace and wealth for all. Much like Hitler, who convinced the German people, that the Jews were to blame for the high price they were made to pay for WW1, Trump has used the middle class and the poor by blaming the Democrats and Obama for their decline. By preaching the doomsday scenario, he gets his base to look the other way, while he plunders the constitution to inject raceism and white supremacy in its place. As with all bullies, they want to dominate you, what they hate most is people who will fight back or no longer agree with their tactics. He will discredit you to others by injecting derrogatory language such as stupid or even someone like a Jew, who might be Unamerican. By understanding his goal to dominate at any price, you start to take his power away from him, you take away is kingly-