He'll play the hero because his supporters think he is one. You just have a shady, sick malignant narcissist demagogue and millions of scared and insecure Americans seeing their white majority Christian country leaking away. There is nothing in the Trump scene for informed, rational and reasonable Americans to be proud of.
It was Plato who said, “He, O men, is the wisest, who like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing”