He said a bunch of shit that the country’s most fearful and illiterate people loved to hear, he validated the fringe conspiracy theorists which breeds a kind of obsessive love that you can’t buy with all the campaign money in the world, so Trump tapped him to keep pied-piper’ing the segments of rats who would vote for having a live porcupine stuffed down their pants if it meant validating the ONE topic that scares them the most. In this case, “mainstream science.”