I'd like to think that Trump is some super (evil) genius that has somehow fooled everyone that he is an incompetent, corrupt and selfish old man but in reality he is destroying the American economy and trust between nations for this sort of reason. Unfortunately I highly doubt this is the case and we need to take him at face value, he's a populist that will read polls to and regurgitate whatever rage is currently driving public opinion in order to manipulate his way into power, he is a master politician in that sense - but these people are often the ugliest "leaders" who use division and hate to rile peoples emotions, rather than actually fixing any important issues. He's purely using his time now for self enrichment, in between golf course trips that is.