It is knee jerk. No real strategy as seen with health care replacement of Obamacare. While there are problems with free trade, the government has messed up by taxing capital investment in the US from overseas profits and failing to invest in infrastructure projects. 

Trump often is a loser. Trump wants to be seen as great. But he lacks focus and has hastily formed opinions that are not based on data analysis. Unfortunately he is a weak leader and a poor gambler. The reactionary politics in the conservative movement are going to cost us.