>>514018414 (OP)
Chinese here. Trump is more like Mao. The key point of Mao style dictator is that he has can bypass the entire bureaucratic system and directly mobilize the grassroots masses.
Historically, most dictators needed a loyal bureaucratic system to maintain their rule (like Kim Jong-un), or at most, like Stalin, controlled one part of the government to attack another.
But Mao could kick the bureaucracy aside and incite the masses to overthrow a government that didn’t obey him. Trump has a similar ability to mobilize his MAGA base, but fortunately, America is sufficiently divided, with a significant number of people strongly opposed to him, so he can’t achieve what Mao did.