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You're giving them too much credit.
Trump is genuinely this stupid, and he's also very insecure, which means he surrounds himself with people just as stupid as he is. Even when those people don't agree with him, they keep it to themselves because Trump's cult leader status allows him to completely destroy the standing of critics within his party with just a few words.
The result is monarchy; a leader deeply unfit for the role surrounded by sycophants who will nod in agreement to everything he says.
It's a pleasant fantasy to think that there's a plan. It would be nice if this was all by design. If America wasn't being lead by some of the most stupid and incompetent people to have ever lived. Because what does that say about Americans, when their leadership are this pathetic?
But this is real and it's happening. Trump is actually this moronic, and the people around him are stupid enough and craven enough to enable him. Those who aren't, like half of the top generals at the Pentagon, get pushed out. The weak willed and the idiotic remain.
Sure, but the people pulling Trump's puppet strings are not stupid.
People like Putin, Netanyahu, the Heritage Foundation. They're evil, manipulative, fanatical and megalomaniacal, but not entirely stupid.
Agreed he is that stupid, but still why not answer the call to help the Saudis when they asked for help which is making rounds in the news. Seems like a perfect way to extort/grift them which is truly one of his goals, smaug levels of wealth.