trump also expressed admiration for the North Korean dictator, Erdgrogan of Turkey, a fundamentalist dictator, and Duterte, a self admitted murderer who is above the law.
Those are the people Trump most admires. People who are above and out of reach the law. That is what he aspires to. He clearly thinks he is beyond the law. With all of his flourishes of signings, most of which are illegal, and which illegality is beyond his comprehesion.
This woman has written a lot about it, makes the most sense of any of the things I've read. She compares him to Mussolini...
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/08/american-authoritarianism-under-donald-trump/495263/