Relevant paragraph: "In order to maintain his popularity, the Trump administration will have to try to find some means of rallying the support and changing the

Relevant paragraph: "In order to maintain his popularity, the Trump administration will have to try to find some means of rallying the support and changing the discourse from the policies that they are carrying out, which are basically a wrecking ball, to something else. Maybe scapegoating, saying, “Well, I’m sorry, I can’t bring your jobs back because these bad people are preventing it.” And the typical scapegoating goes to vulnerable people: immigrants, terrorists, Muslims and elitists, whoever it may be. And that can turn out to be very ugly. I think that we shouldn’t put aside the possibility that there would be some kind of staged or alleged terrorist act, which can change the country instantly." The title and the way it's portrayed in certain news outlets makes it seem like some kind of conspiracy theory, but what he's really saying is that Trump will seize on any small event(or non-event) to try and rally people through fear. It's not out of the realm of possibility that Trump will tweet "Just learnt that ISIS has infiltrated America" and then proceed(or attempt) to clamp down further on civil liberties in the name of safety and peace. Or if some terrorist attack does happen- even if it's relatively minor, he will certainly use that to further increase surveillance powers, remove encryption right and attack those who criticise him. I mean only a couple of days ago he casually threatened to change libel laws to prevent news outlets from attacking him. These are dangerous times.