@PekkaKallioniemi Well it's Trump versus sanity.

The back and forth is whether Trump is thoughtlessly reacting versus letting more mature, more rational people set policy.

There's nothing surprising here. When Trump insists on driving he starts swerving left and right, and then sometimes he lets other people in the administration drive, and they actually steady the course. But they have to talk him into it, pander to him, convince Grandpa to give up the keys as the Republicans kept saying when it came to Biden.

I'm convinced that the people surrounding Trump aren't really on his side. They know he's awful, some are trying to protect the country from him, and some are just after personal ambition. But this framing completely explains whatever's happening.