Trump is not a new problem:

"When a man unprincipled in private life, desperate in his fortune, bold in his temper ...despotic in his ordinary demeanor - known to have scoffed in private at the principles of liberty - when such a man is seen to mount the hobby horse of popularity - to join in the cry of danger to liberty - to take every opportunity of embarrassing the General Government and bringing it under suspicion - to flatter and fall in with all the non sense of the zealots of the day - It may justly be suspected that his object is to throw things into confusion that he may 'ride the storm and direct the Whirlwind.'" - Alexander Hamilton

Hamilton is quoting Hosea 8:7:
"For they sow the wind [in evil] And they reap the whirlwind [in disaster]. The standing grain has no growth; It yields no grain. If it were to yield, strangers would swallow it up."

In other words, there are consequences to words and actions, and those consequences can become exponentially worse and multiply.

Trump is trying to ride the whirlwind that he has created in order to get elected and evade justice.