I’m sure it’s not just a single fantastically evil person who is convincing Trump to repeatedly humiliate himself, damage the U.S. economy, destroy its soft power, alienate its allies, and take steps that empower and embolden all its enemies, but I’m just imagining some insane genius giving a solid hand clap before a team of researchers and saying “okay, folks, what damage are we going to do today?”

At this rate we may be looking at Trump swapping Biden’s lead pipe replacement campaign with a campaign to install lead pipes by the end of the summer. Who knows, maybe Freon will come back because someone tells Trump a thin ozone layer means better tans. Maybe he’ll hear about manifest destiny and start marching the army into the sea, believing it will yield.

These actions are so cartoonishly stupid and ham-fisted, that even if there’s an ounce of sound reasoning in any of them, he’s picking the worst way to approach something that needs nuance.
But that’s the goal, right? Wonder what moves they’re making that aren’t generating much press.