Brilliant, but rudderless.
It does appear that way. I read an
article here on FR from Scott Adams, the guy who created Dilbert. He presented a very good argument that Trump wins by creating a series of win-win scenarios for himself. That on a 2D level, he looks rudderless, but if you expand out to a 3D level, you can see that he puts himself in situations where he comes out the winner regardless of the outcome.
I'm on the fence as to how this ends up working out for Trump. But the blog post by Adams was pretty compelling.