Like what Duterte and Putin are doing

Taking it a step further by encouraging it's widespread application to local law enforcement. Nod and wink included. Clueless indeed, but calculated nevertheless. He is beyond help, as are those who take his words literally.

Will he still be okay with roughing up a suspect?

from the Central Park Five

if the central park five didn't teach him anything he's lost....and i doubt it did.

See how it likes it when the shoe is on the other foot.

Not if.

from the point of view - "How does this affect me? And how can I exploit it?"

The fact that he said that or the fact that they applauded it. And weren't those all Police Chiefs? If I was the mayor of my town and my Chief did that I would ask for his/her immediate resignation.

He assumes they're all guilty because he's guilty of everything he's accused of, so it must be true of everyone.

Jerry described how the cops arrest someone by throwing them to the ground, beating them bloody with nightsticks, then protecting their heads as they load them in the squad car.

Not nearly as funny when Trump tells it.

because he only knows how to govern by fear. He wants everyone to be afraid of him and his goons. That's all he knows.