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IE, Trump has concepts of a plan.
Not anywhere near as concrete as the headline suggests.
In other words, Trump himself has mutually inconsistent, diametrically opposed 'policy' goals, and is too demented/senile, fundamentally stupid, and tempermental, to actually formulate a coherent 'policy'.
This is all contradictory nonsense, and Trump's subordinates are basically just interpreting whatever vague nonsense Trump is saying in whatever way they want.
It is the same as his tariff bullshit.
Tariffs are good because they'll bring in revenue and balance the defecit!
Oh wait, they're crashing the economy? Hah, idiot, that was a negotiating tactic, now we'll negotiate!
Oh wait, negotiations failed? Hah, idiot, that was a bluff, what will actually happen is tariffs will make domestic manufacturing boom!
Wait what? Domestic manufacturing relies on either final assembly of imported goods, or just rebadging/relabeling and reselling imported goods... or actually paying for and building new factories first?
Uh, uh, uh, uh.... Bomb Iran!
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All Trump knows how to do is scam and grift people by saying what he thinks they want to hear, and also self-aggrandizing.
Now he is absurdly out of his depth, and is floundering and flipflopping like a fish out of water.
The reality is that federal agents of the regime will do whatever the fuck they want, justify it however the fuck they want, and threaten to arrest or shoot whoever the fuck they want.