Reconsider any of his actions through the lens of him deliberately wanting what's worst for the US, and suddenly he makes a lot more sense.

He isn't an idiot who doesn't understand the wars he's starting, blundering his way to failure; he's a domestic enemy of the US doing everything in his power to weaken us.

He's playing the village idiot because it fucking works - we give him the village idiot pass again and again because stupidity mitigates intent.

He's a personification of the fucking Darth Jar Jar theory.