Donald Trump is in favor of the tactics used by Phillipine President Rodrigo Duerte.  If you don't know, Duerte has been employing facist-style paramilitary groups (think of the Nazi's SS and the Italian Fascists Brown Shirts) for quite some time to murder citizens it deems bad in a thinly disguised war on drugs.  Trump told Duerte that he's handling this non-judicial and violent mode "in the right way."

This all seems to be part of a pattern.  Trump continually talks about how bad the crime is in America, even though it is statistically inaccurate.  He speaks of the need to grow the military, and instead of demilarizing our beefed-up local police forces he wants to give them even more weaponry and leeway.

Note a pattern here?

So Trump is now following the facist playbook almost verbatim:
1) Beef up law enforcement and tacitly encourage vigilantism

2) Increase the military.  Next up will be: go looking for a conflict that can be easily won & touted. In Italy it was Ethiopia.  In Germany it was the Rhineland and then Czechoslovakia.  In Spain it was a coup attempt that led to civil war.  The low-hanging fruits appear to be Syria and Libya.  Preach peace while all the while gearing up for conflict.

3) Cozy up to the largest economic companies in the country to make their success tied to the administration's success, at least in the way it can be spun.  Remove as many impediments as possible to allow them to conduct business unfettered.  (I.e., "We're doing so well economically; look at the money Goldman Sachs and ExxonMobil are doing.  So my plan is working.")

4) Wrap it in patriotic slogans and rhetoric to suggest that any opposition is both unpatriotic and a domestic enemy.

This is completely in keeping with Trump's admiration of Vladimir Putin and Turkey's Recep Erdogan.  It's likely that he'll find other strongmen around the world who he'll suddenly respect and admire, as it legitimizes the tactics that he is pursuing.