YUP.  I agree!!
There is a reason for trying/straining to see what's in front of one's nose. It is because Trump is using Cognitive Dissonance.  Look it up. Those who have had Psychology or Linguistics already understand this concept. However, in today's United States EVERYONE MUST understand Cognitive Dissonance as a technique for confusing, shaking up and re-framing what oone is or wants to attack.
This technique is very widely used by the Right AND by the RRs(Religious Right).
Pope John Paul II used it to great success when he used abortions as the reason why every Catholic voter MUST vote for Ronald Reagan and the GOP. He USED this technique to force voters into putting the Republicans in power. THEN he could use GOP hate and venom to go after what he really wanted -- his real true goal. The goal of getting Communism out of his native country of Poland. Then he spread his anti-communism wars into Central America and into South America then into the U.S.