Trump doesn't do plans

Trump is fomenting anarchy because he cannot competently manage the pandemic https://t.co/Ll6kW7NCzx

— Jonathan Chait (@jonathanchait) April 19, 2020

I would challenge the headline in all seriousness, and in keeping with the currently accepted media narrative (which I think is finally accurate!) that Trump is relentlessly blame-shifting to the governors of the 50 states.  He wants the credit, not the responsibility; even Chuck Todd sees that now.

Trump is not planning, either.  He's reacting.  He has no plan beyond the next moment or the last thing he saw on FoxNews (like the Nancy Pelosi interview).  That's actually worse for the country.  Trump isn't plotting and scheming to foment anarchy as a cover for his incompetence.  Again, his "liberate" tweets were just a response to a story on FoxNews.  He had no more forethought than that, and probably even less after-thought.  He spasmed, as he does.

The problem is, when the POTUS spasms, bad things happen.  Not quite like this:

Perfection, of a kind, was what he was after,
And the poetry he invented was easy to understand;
He knew human folly like the back of his hand,
And was greatly interested in armies and fleets;
When he laughed, respectable senators burst with laughter,
And when he cried the little children died in the streets.

"Epitaph on a Tyrant," by W.H. Auden (1939)

But his spasms make other people jerk and tremble, like puppets on strings.  His spasms can have dangerous effects, the more so because he doesn't plan or arrange or calculate; he just reacts.

Like a toddler with a shotgun.