I don’t think it was stupid. I think he was consciously enabling them:
Throughout his campaign and presidency, Donald Trump has been reluctant to criticize domestic terrorism and hate groups operating within the United States. The president has focused almost solely on foreign threats but the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security reportedly informed Trump months ago about the domestic threat.
In a May intelligence bulletin published by Foreign Policy magazine on Monday, DHS and the FBI pointed out that attacks by white supremacists on U.S. soil far outnumbered every other type of terrorist threat.
The agencies concluded that attacks by white supremacists “likely will continue to pose a threat of lethal violence over the next year.”
Trump is at his core a very, very evil man.
Trump wants to use billions of tax dollars to buy a bigger missile defense system (Star Wars) from his oligarch pals in the armaments industry.
So how do you justify such an expenditure to the public? Especially given the fact that such a system has been shown to be useless in an actual attack?
You scare the crap out of everybody by claiming that the North Korean’ s have miniaturized a nuclear bomb and that they can mount it on a missile that they’ve already tested.
Further that those nuclear tipped missiles can reach the US.
So if you’re Trump, you huff and you puff and you blather on meaninglessly until, as a compromise, you announce that you’ve come up with a GREAT IDEA!
You will build the HUGHEST, BESTEST, MOST ADVANCED STAR WARS SYSTEM (EVEN BETTER THEN REAGAN’S) THAT THE WORLD HAS EVER SEEN!!!
That way Trump can save face and Kim Jong Un can continue to play the lead role is his own Wagnerian opera.
Yes, and he will make Kim Jong Un pay for it!
President four-year-old values loyalty above all else, and the goddamn Nazis are the most loyal to him of all, so yeah, he has a hard time throwing them under the bus. Which, of course, disqualifies him from the presidency.