Is some of the Trump stuff a weird kind of loyalty test

from Trump to his supporters? The encouragement to protest shelter in place orders, the weird pushing of medicines and now bizarrely dangerous “treatments”... The “who ya gonna believe, me or your lying eyes?” daily gaslighting. I can think of other examples too. But is this cult-like conditioning to test how far his followers are willing to put themselves on the line and at risk if he tells them to? This had crossed my mind, and i’ve now seen at least one article suggesting this- particularly that his followers are being conditioned to violence if things start really not going his way.