Trump cannot survive long without the rallies. They are his safe space in a world turned against him. No matter the risk, he’ll hold those rallies. They work for him for three reasons. First, the rallies are a guaranteed way for Trump to commit news, to darken the press sky in the way for which he is notably famous. Trump doesn’t go on the stage of these rallies and throw out racist tropes, wild lies, and metric kilotons of total bullshit for no reason. He does so because he knows that the national press corps is a machine built along certain design guidelines.
