Serious question:

[mac56]

Is it possible that he's doing all this lunatic shit as a distraction?

Is it possible that he's that strategic?

[drray23]

1. i dont think so.

I think he is just batshit crazy. I have long since stopped trying to find any kind of strategic meaning in his behavior.
Trump is impulsive and will do/say/tweet something on the spur of the moment without regards for consequences.
I also think he is actually mentally impaired.

[shraby]

2. He's narcisstic. He believes every word and thinks everyone else does too.

[theophilus]

3. I believe that he does what he is told. n/t

[lpbk2713]

4. Maybe he thinks he'll stumble across something profound.

Quite by accident.

[leftieNanner]

5. Yes and No

He is always throwing out new BS distractions because he is a narcissist and he needs to be at the top of every news feed 24/7.

But he is also tangentially aware of the bad news sometimes, which prompts him to throw out crazy stuff - shiny stuff - for the media to follow so that we pay less attention to the bad things.

Plus he is seriously mentally ill and deteriorating.

Just MHO.

[BigmanPigman]

8. Agree!

[Thomas Hurt]

6. He is a malignant narcissist....

that explains some of it. The other part he is just a dogmatic far right nutjob, a fascist.

anti-intellectual
scapegoating
fear mongering
racist
misogynistic
reactionary
newspeak propagandist
paranoiac

[PandoraAwakened]

7. I think this about encompasses everything in a NUTshell (pun intended).

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

9. 45 is the distraction for whoever is really in charge

[leftieNanner]

11. Agreed

He's far too stupid and uninformed to be making these hideous changes on his own. Somebody else is doing it and I shudder to think who it is.

I'm sorry that you lost almost all of the vowels in your name.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

15. The puppet master likely doesn't have a New York accent

vowels are generally superfluous.

[customerserviceguy]

10. Trump is a master at distraction

That's how he beat out over a dozen more qualified GOP'ers for the nomination.

If we're talking about buying Greenland, then we're not talking about anything important. People can only absorb so much news per day, and if you overload them with crap, they'll just turn off.

[kentuck]

12. I wonder what is the real distraction ?

That he doesn't want to talk about?

[customerserviceguy]

14. From the perspective

of any previous administration, Trump has made every mistake in the book. How many of us thought it was over for him when he first mocked John McCain?

He serves up fantasy for his base every day. It's like Scheherazade from the famous "1001 Arabian Nights" story, he keeps telling his base BS to keep them enthralled and from turning on him. The fact that a lot of it drives us and the news media bonkers is just a bonus for him.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

13. He's not smart enough to plan anything more complicated

than tying his shoes.

I also doubt that he is actually following any kind of orders from Putin. He's so fucking stupid AND ignorant, that anything and everything he does benefits Putin. No need to tell him what to do. Plus, Trump can't remember anything from one minute to the next, so there's absolutely no point in trying to give him orders.