It’s sitting right there in front of us. In every case the initial driver is the president’s personal cupidity and grandiosity, things which have no relation to any aspect of public policy or really any public support. He does them because he can, having along with the Supreme Court removed basically all of the immediate brakes on a president’s power. But those initials gambits, the hunger for gifts and cash prizes lead to bad news stories, legal impediments or often technological snafus. Those in turn lead to embarrassment, anger, outbursts which repeat the process of bad news stories, legal impediments or often technological snafus.