I think the bigger question should be why is he wasting his time with stuff that isn't that important? I'm not saying that setting universal standards and things like that aren't important, but when we are in the middle of a fiscal crisis why is that the most important thing for POTUS to be dealing with? I have a boss right now who likes to do the fun stuff, but other more important stuff gets ignored. It's frustrating and a bad management of priorities I think.
I think the answer to that is that it is important to Trump and his circle and it all points to one very well known ideology: "Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Führer"
He does seem to take some lessons from dictators and tyrants.
I think Trump is just doing random things to make some group of society (that doesn't think too much) cheer him. He does lots of these largely useless things to get large amounts of people to cheer him. But it should be remembered, that there is life after Trump too, and technology is going to impact on us all regardless.
Yes, you are probably right. It's all about ego and division.
Sounds like a psychology book!