Is Trump deliberate in his chaos theory?

Maybe chaos theory isn't the right term. It seems like president Trump operates in a chaotic matter, but deliberately so. The tariffs are a prime example of his negotiation style - attack, retreat, attack, negotiate ad infinitum or at least until it lands where he wants. Another example might be the Elon Musk spat. It seems too sudden, too temporally coincidental with Musk's mandatory departure date from DOGE. 

Now they have a feud? Right at the end of the administration? That seems all too conveniently timed to me. I don't have a problem with it; he's moving the country in the right direction on so many fronts, why worry about his methods and whether they are the best way to do it?  If chaos is working at the moment, use it.

Trump is an expert at media manipulation and this Trump-Musk feud smacks to me of being planned. Musk just mentioned Trump is in the Epstein files. Now the Democrats are clamoring for it's release. Let's face it, they are so desperate to derail him that they'd grasp for anything, even if it means throwing Bill Clinton and any other Democrat they were formerly protecting under the bus, along with Trump. 

Getting Democrats to flip so radically based on one hearsay comment? Too easy. I mean, I could be wrong, quite easily. But the pieces for more Democrat self-derailment seem to be falling into place insanely well. The flip in attitude is crazy. And staunch Epstein story questioners like Kash Patel and Dan Bongino suddenly insisting that Epstein did himself in, also seem strangely timely. As if to lend credence to the notion that Trump has decided that he doesn't want the Epstein files released. It's bait. It's a ruse that Democrats are all too happy now, to bite on.