According to Shakespeare, the mob went wild when Caesar refused the crown.  They loved him even more when he failed physically in front of them.  He could be one of them!

He could also be like Trump – who said he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and his followers would not blink. 

Casca had seen it all.

Marry, before he fell down, when he perceived the common herd was glad he refused the crown, he plucked me ope his doublet and offered them his throat to cut.  An I had been a man of any occupation, if I would not have taken him at a word, I would I might go to hell among the rogues.  And so he fell.  When he came to himself again, he said, if he had done or said anything amiss, he desired their worships to think it was his infirmity.  Three or four wenches, where I stood, cried ‘Alas, good soul!’ and forgave him with all their hearts: but there’s no heed to be taken of them; if Caesar had stabbed their mothers, they would have done no less.  (1.2.269-275)

A learned commentator (Philip Brockbank) says:

Caesar uses his histrionic abilities to satisfy his audience’s expectations, contriving to make himself appear not only more god like but also more human than ordinary mortals.  That tense and ambivalent relationship between the public and its leader can make or unmake tyrants – it is ready to go either way – the divergence effect of catastrophe theory.  Because the people are satisfied as spectators, it seems that they acquiesce in or participate in the casual terror of Caesar’s regime.

The playwright saw it all – if Caesar had stabbed their mothers, they would have done no less.

Except that Trump would not have refused the crown.  He can’t help himself. 

And in the play, the crowd is about to whipped up to havoc and the dogs of war by the most duplicitous piece of mob oratory known in our letters – and then they butcher an innocent poet in the Roman gutter. 

P J Brockbank was led to conclude his paper as follows.

The play was, and remains, capable of awaking its audiences to a fuller and more sympathetic understanding of the catastrophic dynamics of human community.  But if it teaches us to distrust our rulers, it also teaches us to distrust the distrusters.