What was his motivation? Some say the coup attempt is. Sorry Donald but you're fired.
The Presidency is a position of power. Trump has been.
POLITICO: Lawmakers who conspired with Capitol attackers in legal peril.
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/14/lawmakers-capitol-attackers-legal-459519
The New Yorker asks what do we call this day? (The New Yorker: What Should We Call the Sixth of January?.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/what-should-we-call-the-sixth-of-january). I believe we should celebrate the final breath of Trump's authority. Just like Guy Fawkes Day in the United Kingdom. Burning a wood effigy of the man who plotted to blow up parliament.
Guy Fawkes was a failed usurper in Great Britain.