I don't know. Even Pol Pot though he was building a "better society" (through thought control, terror, forced collectivization, etc.), just as Mao had attempted in China a decade before.
I still cannot think of a historical example analogous to our own, where a popular national leader (twice-elected) intentionally set his government to the task of undermining the economic power and political influence of his own nation, in part by taking the side of its adversaries in world affairs, and also by refusing to name its existential enemy.
And I cannot recall a precedent for such a leader intentionally inflicting pain (e.g. - via narrowly-targeted and unnecessary "sequester" actions) on his own people purely out of petulance, spite and/or naked political calculus.
It is almost as though the American leader has no roots in, or sentimental attachment for his own country...