It seems to me that the Trump administration is driven by chaos and bitter infighting. From what I read, there are four factions that are in conflict. The most powerful is the extreme right lead by Stephen Bannon and Stephen Miller but who are highly inexperienced. There is the more moderate Republican faction led by Reince Priebus. The weakest is the Trump family led by Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump who don't seem to have an agenda. The fourth faction is the permanent White House staffers, bureaucrats, intelligence officials, and the military.

Each group is leaking embarrassing tidbits about what is going on out of spite. Disbelieving journalists say they don't even have to work at their sources as they come running to them. The embarrassing phone calls to world leaders should have been top secret but they were leaked to the media. The botched Yemen raid was blamed on the military who then came out with their version of events.