As always, when “trump” does something, it may well be some of the evil organization behind him who is doing the thinking behind it. So it’s them doing it; he’s just lending his office’s power to them. Many of those folks are very competent at being evil and are actively working hard ushering in a Fascism that will outlive trump himself by decades, if not centuries.
Now when trump says something, often that’s just thoughtless off-the-cuff toddler babble. But other times it’s him spewing an idea one of the professional evils planted.
In no way am I trying to exonerate trump of personal responsibility for all the evil acts of his criminal regime and himself. The greed and lust for power are all his and all genuine. And all despicable.
I only argue that his regime’s policies and actions consist of two almost unrelated parts. One part is well-thought out in the service of destroying democracy, creating fascism, and also embedding the trump family as hereditary klepto-oligarchs, perhaps even hereditary rulers in the North Korean mold. And there’s one part of mindless ego-stroking and BS pronouncing. Increasingly senile BS pronouncing. But it plays well to the increasingly propaganda besotted know-nothings who are his natural constituents.