He's collapsing, psychologically disintegrating because his image's in tatters now, he's no longer the Peace President he wanted to be remembered as. So the rage is directed elsewhere, externalized. At the same time he seeks refuge deep in his trusted yes-men to soothe all of this. Who tell him he's doing great, he's in charge, he's the one with the final decision. IMO.
That's how it looks to me too.
People are getting all emotional about Trump on all sides and either fall into outrage or mindless loyalty. This then leads to simplistic takes, like "he's been an evil psyop all along" to "trust the plan" and so on.
I think what we could observe, which is also aligned with what the Cs said over the years, is this: Trump was NOT a Deep State cutout unlike most presidents, and all recent ones. He was a genuine populist, therefore a wildcard, and the Deep State fought him tooth and nail with propaganda, phony lawfare, election rigging, and finally the attempt to take him out.
This had been enough for most people, including us, to root for him - not because he's some sort of savior or even will be able to do much good (if any), but because he represented a sort of "breaking of the system", both rhetorically, via his erratic "fluidity" and via the reaction by the Deep State he provoked - a great "unveiling". This has always been Trump's main positive effect, even to this day.
Now that never meant he was a great guy, he always was a bombastic Narcissist with questionable morals, to say the least. But objectively, he was a wildcard, a thorn in the Deep State's side, a mainstreamer of common sense, and a "great revealer" both consciously and by accident. He also had good intentions ("he will try" as the Cs said) to do something good for the US, misguided as it may have always been. Which is little, but tellingly enough to send the entire establishment into a frenzy.
Then when the Butler thing failed, and apparently taking him out wasn't an option anymore, the PTB switched gears in an effort to use him for their purposes. How do you do that? Easy: you put blackmail-pressure on him while simultaneously exploiting his weak, narcissistic psychology. You surround him with manipulative whisperers, sideline everyone who exhibits at least some sanity (and kill Charlie to make an example of what happens when you try to have the "wrong" influence on him), while maximizing the blackmail pressure. Because you know that Trump in his narcissism and Dunning-Kruger won't "grow to the occasion" (unlike a JFK or RFK) but rather, to shield himself from the reality that he has become a powerless tool for destruction, escapes into ever-crazier fantasy worlds where he's the "peace president" and genius negotiator etc. The blackmail-pressure also makes him even less able to think straight.
So they got their precious Iran war, and perhaps it indeed took a Trump to get us there. On the positive side, this whole mess, coupled with the erraticness and as a result all kinds of admissions by the Trump admin, has only accelerated the "great unveiling". I cannot help but think this is part of the long-term plan of a Cosmic Rebalancing, including the possible destruction of Israel in the long term the Cs hinted at (sort of the cosmos doing its thing).
So, while we can be morally repulsed by Trump's behavior, we should also look at it coldly, from a more objective, "cosmic" position, as part of the natural process. The bad guys might be using Trump, but he also is a conduit for chaotic, but necessary changes.