A lot of the reason he's so much worse this time around is that most of the beuracracy was either left intact or replaced with moderately competent people the first time. They'd ignore everything that came out of his mouth and only do stuff when he signed an EO, reverting when a court blocked it.

This time it's all true believers or people will do anything for power and think making him happy will get them that. They take the initiative to implement his word salad and have much longer attention spans, sidestepping or ignoring the courts to keep pushing. Insignificant picks like the head of national parks are shoving his face on passes, painting a pool with zero planning because he mentioned it once, and blowing their whole budget on an arch.

There was drama surrounding him firing prosecutors in his first term, but the replacements all got picked by establishment conservatives. This time, a bunch of the key prosecutors are his former attorneys or hardcore supporters, leading to a bunch of vengeful prosecutions.