@GhostOnTheHalfShell @Moss I think I understand what you're trying to say about hijacking empathy to manipulate the mob. I'm not a psychologist, so take everything that follows with pinch: I think you're referring to sympathy, which is a more primal/simpler emotion than empathy. Sympathy is getting tuned to someone other projected emotions. Sympathy is easily manipulated.
Empathy is a more complex social emotion and takes at its root to recognize the other as human being with emotions, not like a "it" - what a psychopath does. (Empathy is then often categorized on affective and cognitive empathy, but it's useless here). Asking to consider others like a it is by definition of empathy asking to lose your empathy.
So, i think Trump is using sociopathic deception to manipulate his mob sympathy, rouse their primal emotions like glee, rage, egoism, self preservation, fear etc to make them abandon their more complex social emotions, especially empathy since it's a core one for complex social structures.