The NYT Magazine ran an article roughly ten days ago about Trump’s relationships with his lawyers. As you would expect, he likes attorneys who are very aggressive, never appear to back down, and plausibly spin even his defeats as victories.
I actually found this article somewhat encouraging, because if Trump and his agents are that good at persuading himself and the public that his failures are really successes, it gives him some room to back down in a crisis. Without that kind of ability, I don’t see any way he won’t lead us (and the rest of the world) into one disaster after another, since we know he can’t stand to be viewed as a loser.