Several accounts of Trump's actions during the siege and storming of the Capitol indicate that he spent the afternoon transfixed, glued to the television as events unfolded. To me that suggests several things; first Trump is so completely devoid of a capacity for empathy that even though he knew his VP was in the building as it was being attacked, he was unwilling to taking action (he refused calls from numerous people begging him to call off his mob); because at the same time he was riveted (and apparently enjoying) the spectacle he had so long nurtured and cultivated.
It was his dream come true; a private army wiling to do his bidding. As someone who evidently gets off on manipulating others, this was his intoxicating masterpiece. And in that he would seem to be in good company, with the likes of Putin, Orban, Erdoğan, and Duterte, all autocratic leaders for whom he has expressed admiration (and probably envies). The presidency, it seems, was "too much [constraint] and never enough [power]".
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