On Saturday, Donald Trump held his first major political rally of the 2024 presidential campaign in Waco, Texas. He is a master showman, gifted at understanding and fulfilling his followers' dreams, needs and fantasies and their belief in their inherent greatness and destiny. In so many ways, Trump is their preacher, teacher, father figure, confidant, priest and lover all embodied in one person. Considered in that light, his Waco performance did not disappoint.
Trump's plane flew in over the crowd as the song "Danger Zone" from the "Top Gun" films was played over the loudspeakers and a supposedly Christian "speed painter" completed a huge picture of the former president.
