He's not delusional (with regard to what he's doing). He wins either way. The government crumbles, he gets to remake it in his image. He fails, he gets to claim he made the government more efficient, and the fact that it's limping along is just the result of "necessary" pruning.

This is all theater. He doesn't actually care about the outcome or the American people.

He's not dellusional, he just don't have a clue of whathe's talking about and just throw around keywords and try to look smart.

As longas you're not familiar with the subject it works well.

remember when he told programers to print some code they wrote previous weeks ? Or when he tried to impress people with his knowledge of PoE2 and Diablo 4 ? Qe has done the same for decades, at spacex and tesla as well.

It's a known fact that SpaceX have an entire eam of full time people whose job is listening to elon bullshit and being the yesmen so he feels validated, then actual engineers take decisions.

IIRC there were the same with tesla and for some reason the system stopped working. And then, the cybertruck happened.