A longer answer is a comparison I’ve made before. The Trump presidency is the equivalent of a pigeon drop.
For those who aren’t familiar with the term, a pigeon drop is a classic con. The basic outline of the con is a person encounters a situation with two other people and a sum of found money. There is a suggestion of dividing up the money equally among the three of them.
The con man then secretly talks to the person. He suggests they work together to cheat the third guy out of his share. The person agrees to the plan, which is complicated and involves the person putting up some of his own money.
The secret of the con is that both of the other two people are con men and they are working together. The target of the con was actually the original person, who mistakenly thought he was in on the con.
The reason this con works is because of that mistaken belief. By convincing the target that he is part of the con, he doesn’t have his usual suspicions about the con man. If a person you just met an hour ago suggested that you should withdraw five thousand dollars form your savings account and wrap it up in a handkerchief, you’d suspect it was a con game and refuse. But in a pigeon drop, you know it’s a con game and the guy talking to you is a con man - you just think he’s on your side and the two of you are working together to screw over somebody else.
This is what Trump is doing. He’s got a lot of people convinced that he’s on their side and together they’re screwing over the liberals. So when those liberals try to warn those people about Trump and say he can’t be trusted, the people smile and ignore the warnings - because they think they’re in on the game. They don’t understand that Trump isn’t really screwing over the liberals - he’s really screwing over his own supporters. They’re the suckers in Trump’s con.