As past POTUS and possible future POTUS, Trump is a collaborator in a much darker long game by our USA white "christian" nationalists that goes back many, many decades. It's a win-win for him and them. He is just the person they need now, and nobody could easily fill his shoes (maybe that's why the shoes thing...), so they would not be taking any chances with near-martyrdom. The short version is, they get him the Oval Office, he wrecks the government as we knew it, and then they impose Gilead (details may vary, but that's the basic idea, a patriarchal theocracy). The documentary "Bad Faith" goes into the details - https://www.badfaithdocumentary.com/ - available on multiple platforms, free on Tubi: https://tubitv.com/movies/100020971/bad-faith