Yes, he does like it. And the cruelty of the Trump administration has always been the glue that binds at least a portion of Trump's followers to Trump. I will never regard cruelty and bullying as characteristics of true leadership:
"We can hear the spectacle of cruel laughter throughout the Trump era. There were the border-patrol agents
cracking up at the crying immigrant children separated from their families, and the Trump adviser who
delighted white supremacists when he
mocked a child with Down syndrome who was separated from her mother. There were the police who laughed uproariously when the president
encouraged them to abuse suspects, and the Fox News hosts
mocking a survivor of the Pulse Nightclub massacre (and in the process inundating him with threats), the survivors of sexual assault
protesting to Senator Jeff Flake, the women who said the
president had sexually assaulted them, and the teen
survivors of the Parkland school shooting. There was the president
mocking Puerto Rican accents shortly after thousands were killed and tens of thousands displaced by Hurricane Maria,
the black athletes protestingunjustified killings by the police,
the women of the #MeToomovement who have come forward with stories of sexual abuse, and the disabled reporter whose crime was reporting on Trump truthfully. It is not just that the perpetrators of this cruelty enjoy it; it is that they enjoy it with one another. Their shared laughter at the suffering of others is an adhesive that binds them to one another, and to Trump."
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/the-cruelty-is-the-point/572104/
