This language and tactic is standard of cult leaders. Emotionally embracing their followers in a group think way. Which he began doing very early on.....he can hardly bare the idea some are leaving his flock so he's reeling them in to support his fear and his ego. I continue to be amazed that his folloers remain blinded when so much of what Trump is about isn't hidden...it's right there!.... and still they cannot see!
We've known this nations people are ripe for deception but this isn't so much deception as a willful blindness to the obvious.