The only caveat I have here is that he's a puppet. The likelihood that there are intelligences behind him is too great. Trump doesn't have a strategy, but others do.

Flatter him a few times and ask him to say something stupid and it'll get said. He is the distraction, but doesn't know it.

My holdout for hope is that this much of a stooge can only come around every few years. There can't be another idiot waiting in the wings, right? Right?

I don't think those in his circle will dance on the same strings that trump will, and will break the illusion if asked to, but I'm just an optimist.