He’ll act like most nutcase tyrants do, he’ll pile on.
Great line from the tyrant Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, in 1 Kings:
“My father beat you with whips but I will whip you with scorpions!”
My father beat you with whips but I will whip you with scorpions!
FYI the "scorpion" was a whip with flayed endings embedded with sharp objects.