Its not explicitly ego like the other commenter said, but also facsist need to be constantly under attack, wether by immigrants or most likely now shifting to “anti American protestors” or whatever rhetoric they find effective to get their reactionary audience scared. They’ll trust their supreme leader will protect them from whatever the enemy of the day is. By campaigning he can do what he did to win the election, lie so much that the main narrative parroted across the consolidated media environment will be his fearmongering. Same strategy, likely he needs to redirect to US Citizens now.