Trump has spent his entire life in business, he didn't flip a switch into politician when he got elected. He still treats everything like its in the business world, and its one of the reasons why his first term was useless and he is only marginally doing better in this one.

A lot of his decisions start to make more sense when you realize he is under this boomer delusion of how the economy and businesses operate decades after they stopped doing that outside the elite levels he ran in.