Gosh you’re so close to getting it. Donald Trump is a malignant narcissist who is dying from frontotemporal dementia. The parts of his brain which control decision-making, judgement, and social interactions are just tangled clots now. He has no ability to form rational plans because he is actually psychotic and lives in an alternate reality generated by his own delusions and Natalie Harp. He does not “troll.” It’s not an act. He is an extremely sick man trying to keep his messianic ego intact. He has lost the ability to bullshit through life, because he has no contact with the objective world. He really thinks the Strait is “open.” He is not in the “early stages” of decline. He’s half a vegetable with the nuclear codes. He is an existential danger to the planet. Hope it helps.