Trump imagines (or pretends) that he is "at one" with the nation (symbolized by the flag). Therefore he can do anything and everything he wishes to do. The mother-country gives him permission. There is no "super-ego" when you are at one with the mother.

This is what "symbiosis" means...and is. 

Politics and "history" are a function of unconscious fantasy projected into the world.

If you are fascinated by all of this (and "read all about it"), it's because you are plugged into the same fantasy.

Richard Koenigsberg